Vol. XI, No. 5. 



MAY, 1890. 



No? 125. 



The American 



MOiSITHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JO 



L 



CONTAINING 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO BIOLOGY. 



CONTENTS 



A Microscopic Study of the Cotton Plant. 

 (Illustrated. )—Mei.l. 



Cheap Boxes for Slides. —Shimer. 



Annual Address before the Washington 

 Microscopical Society delivei'ed at its 

 Soiree for 1890. — B.\lloch. 



Japanese Lacquer. — Hitchcock. 



BioLOGic.M. Notes. — Cockle Parasite. Eu- 

 dorina. Examination of Sputa. Or- 

 sranisms in Common Yeast. 



Some Habits of the Cray-Fish. — Hargitt. 

 The Preparation of Nutritive Agar. — 



Moore. 

 A Simple Turn-Table. — Elliott. 

 Microscopical Societies. — Essex 



County, N. J. 

 Book Notices. — Molloy. Ramsay, 



Ball, Murchison, Studer, Favre, 



Whymper. Curtman. 

 Subscribers' Notices. 



Chas. W. Smiley, Publisher, Washington, D. C. 

 Terms: For the United States $1.00. For Great Britain, 5 Shillings. 



WASHINGTON 'UN ^ 'ia90^ 



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



