THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



VOL. XIX. SEPTEMBER, 1898. NO. 9. 



Contents. 



Ivocating Objects by the Points of a Compass-Dial or of a 



Clock-Face, Ward 149-152 



A Description of Cells Proper 152-154 



Micro-Studies in Marine ^oology I54-I55 



PrACTicai, Sugge;sTions, — Soft Tissues, Blood, Blue Glass, 



Sugar ^55-156 



Can Amoeba be Formed from Bacillaria 157-159 



Some Fine Points 159 



Editorial. — 2;ool. Bulletin, Slides, Spiders, Gape Worm, 



Laboratory, Shameful 160-16 r 



Science Gossip.— Smallest Watch, Flying Bullet, Hydra, 

 Mucilage Cells, London Air, Semen Test, Albuminuria, 

 Cleaning Cover Glasses, Royal Mic. Society, Quekett Club, 



Books ~. 161-167 



Misceli^anEous 168 



Locating Objects by the Points of a Compass-Dial or of 

 a Clock-Face. 



By R. H Ward, M. D., Troy, N. Y. 



This obvious expedient is of course known to many ; 

 but according to the writer's observation it is adequately 

 used by few if any. It is certainly capable of greatly 

 increased usefulness. Anyone who has seen, as the 

 writer has witnessed many times, an experienced and 

 competent microscopist search two or three hours for 

 some special object known to be somewhere amidst the 

 confusing abundance on a large mount, and then go off 

 to bed (toward morning) without finding it, will realize 

 the convenience and importance of having some ever- 

 present means of knowing where to look. 



For locating a certain small object among a large 

 number strewn over a slide or a structural point in a 



