Vol. XI, No. i. 



JANUARY, 1890. 



No. 121. 



The American 



MONTHLY 



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CONTAINING 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO BIOLOGY. 



CON TENTS 



A Very Easily Constructed Hot-Stage. — 

 Smiley. 



A Cheap Box for Slides. — Hamilton. 



An Inexpensive Reagent Block. — Pills- 

 bury. 



A New Form of Mounting Clip — BRY.^N. 



Use of Eye-Piece Micrometers and other 

 Eje-Piece Accessories. — Jones. 



Three Prizes for Microscopical Work. — 

 Stephens. 



The Colored Screen in Photo-Microgra- 

 phy. — Hitchcock. 



A Point in the Use of Oil of Cloves. — 

 Jackson. 



Report upon the Postal Club Boxes. — 

 IX. — Queen Mab. 



I'.ioLOGiCAL Notes. — Vegetable Prepara- 

 tions, Vacciniuni vitis-idaea. In- 

 oculation for Rabies. Dwarf Trees. 

 Staining Paraffin Sections. Circu- 

 lation of Fluids in Plants. Teeth of 



Ornithorhynchiis. Zoology ot tlic 

 Bermudas. 



Bacteriology. — A New Method of Stain- 

 ing Flagella and Cilia of Micro-Or- 

 ganisms. 



Editorial. — Our First Decade. Subscrip- 

 tion Agencies. Payments. Binding. 

 Slides Received. 



Boys' Department. — A Popular Error 

 About Water. 



M I c R o s c o p ic A L S o c I E T I E s . — Wash- 

 ington, D. C. St. Louis. Brooklyn. 

 Essex Co. Iron City. 



Notices of Books. — Macfarlane. Bul- 

 loch. Kent. Mills. 



Subscribers' Notices. 



List of Walter White's Botanical Sections 

 and Other Objects Ready for Mount- 

 ing or for Examination. — Smiley. 



Microscopical Directory and Statis- 

 tics, 



Chas. W. S.miley, Publisher, Washington, D. C. 



Terms: For the United States, $L00. For Great Britain, 5 Shillings. 



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G^soN Brothers, Printers 



Copyright, 1890, by Chas. W. Smiley. All rights reserved. 



