178 SUMMABY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Arthur, J. 0. — Some Botanical Laljoratories of the TTnited States. 



[Describes twelve laboratories, with the Microscopes, &c., used. " The 

 number of compound Microscopes employed is above twenty on the 

 average for each Institution, while the number of students who make use 

 of the laboratories during the year ranges from fifty to a hundred.."] 



Bot. Gazette, X. (1885) pp. 395-406 (5 figs.). 

 „ „ A Germinating Pan. 



[Found so satisfactory at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station as 

 to supersede all others.] 



lUd., pp. 425-6 (2 figs.). 

 AuBERT, A. B. — Styrax for mounting. \_Supra,-p. 171.] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ,, VI. (1885) p. 219. 

 „ „ Results of Experiments upon the adhesiveness of some Micro- 



scopical Cements. [Supra, p. 173.] Ibid., pp. 227-9. 



B. S c. — See Wood Sections. 

 Bansch & Lomh Microtome. 



[Laboratory microtome. See this Journal, V. (1885) p. 1089.] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., VI. (1885) pp. 205-7 (1 fig.). 

 Becker, A. — Neuerung an Mikrotomen. (Improvement in Microtomes.) 



Title only of German Patent, Kl. 42, No. 6065. 

 Bell, J. — [Instrument for making Cells.] 



[A home-made arrangement.] Engl. Mech., XLII. (1886) p. 407 (1 fig.). 



Bel LONG I, G. — Del fuso direzionale e della f ormazione di un glohulo polare nell' 

 ovulo ovarico di alcuni mammiferi. (On the structure and formation of a 

 polar globule in the ovule of some mammalia.) 



[Process of preparation, post^ Rend. R. Accad. Lincei, I. (1885) pp. 285-6. 



Bernheimer, S. — Zur Kenntniss der Nervenfaserschicht der menschl. Retina. 



(On the knowledge of the nerve-fibres of the human retina.) [^Supra, p. 169.3 



SB. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, XO. (1884). 

 Bigg, J. S. — See Wood Sections. 

 Booth, 0. F. — Limpid Solution of Damar. [Cf. infra, J&me8,F.'L.'] 



St. Louis National Druggist, VII. (1885) p. 245 and 293. 

 Bottone, S. — See Wood Sections. 

 Bur rill, T. J. — Section Cutting. 



[Directions for cutting botanical specimens. " Nothing new is offered."] 



Bot. Gazette, X. (1885) pp. 421-4. 

 „ „ Starch Grains. [Post.'] Ibid., pp. 424-5. 



„ „ Germination of Fungus Spores. [Post.'] Ibid., p. 428. 



, „ Exhibiting streaming of Protoplasm. [Post.] 



Ibid., pp. 428-9. 

 Campbell, D. H. — A Method of Spore Germination. [Post.] Ibid., p. i28. 



Carmine, Preparation of. 



[Madame Cenette's and other processes.] 



Engl. Mech., XLII. (1885) p. 297. 

 Carpenter, J. — Foraminifera to mount in B&lsam. [Post] 



Journ. of Micr., V. (1886) p. 50. 



CasteUarnau,J. M. de. — Precedes pour I'examen microscopique et la Conservation 



des Animaux a la station zoologique de Naples. (Methods for the microscopical 



examination and preservation of animals at the Zoological Station of Naples.) 



[Transl. by Dr. J. Pelletan of second part of the Eeport noted Vol. V. (1885) 



p. 746.] 



Journ. de Microgr., IX. (1885) pp. 405-410, 482-7. 

 Cf. also pp. 323-4. 

 Cement for fixing Wood to Glass. 



[Gelatin dissolved in hot acetic acid in such proportions that it solidifies on 

 cooling.] 



Journ. of Micr., V. (1885) p. 67, from Chem. Rev. and 



Echo Forestier. 

 Cements, Strong. [Post.] Micr. Bulletin {Queen's), II, (1885) p. 45. 



