550 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES, ETC. 



Summers, fi. E. — Improved method of constructing Slide Cabinets. IPost.'] 



Proc. Amer. Soc, Micr., 8th Ann. Meeting, 1885, pp. 108-9 (1 fig.). 

 Tayloe, G. H. — ^Water-washed Diatoms. 



[Describes the process of cleaning diatoms from mud by treatment with 

 clean water, without the use of acids — at one point boiling in water with 

 the addition of a little cooking soda.] 



Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., 8th Ann. Meeting, 1885, pp. 207-8. 

 „ „ Cleaning Diatoms from Marine Muds. 



[Detailed directions.] Ibid., pp. 208-10. 



Taylok, J. E. — Hunting for Amoehas. [/S'Mpra, p. 530.] 



Sci.- Gossip, 1886, pp. 113-4. 

 Taylob, T. — Butter and Fats. To distinguish one fat from another by means 

 of the Microscope. 



[General examination of butter and its substitutes by the naked eye. 

 Microscopic test. How to crystallize butter and other fats, and separate 

 the crystals so as to be seen with the naked eye or pocket lens. The 

 butter of several States examined. Mounting butter crystals. Sulphuric 

 acid and other tests for butter, oleomargarine, and butterine. How to 

 detect the crystals of lard by the eye, unaided by a lens. General notes.] 

 Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., 8th Ann. Meeting, 1885, pp. 128-38 



(no plate yet) pp. 234-5. 

 - „ „ [Reply to Prof. Weber.] 



The Microscope, VI. (1886) pp. 78-9, see also pp. 85-6. 

 Thompson, J. C. — Mounting -DermanyssMs. 



[To avoid curling up of legs, allow it to walk on the slide, then drop 

 tolerably cool glycerin jelly on it, and then warm cover.] 



Journ. of Micr.; \. (1886) p. 119. 

 Trichophjrton tonsurans. 



[Directions by T. Sympson and V. A. L. for preparing.] 



Scientif. Enquirer, I. (1886) pp. 55-6. 

 Typical Slides. 



[Report of Committee of Amer. Soc. Micr. as to collecting, storing, and 



circulating typical slides of mounted objects and illustrations of special 



methods, and recommendation to the Society "to acquire, hold, and 



circulate the same." Also rules for storing and circulating the objects.] 



Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., 8th Ann. Meeting, 1885, pp. 246-7. 



Ui)E, H.— Ueber die Biickenporen der terricolen Oligochaeten. 



[Methods for showing dorsal pores of terricolous Oligochseta. Post."] 



Zeitschr. f. Wiss. Zool, XLIII. (1885) pp. 87-143 (1 pi.). 

 Van Brunt. — See Smith, H. L. 

 VoECE, 0. M.— Killing Insects' Eggs. 



[Soaking in carbolic acid will destroy vitality without affecting the appear- 

 ance for a dry or balsam mount.] 



11th Ann. Rep. Amer. Post. Micr. Club, 1886, p. 14. 

 W[aed], R. H. — Curtain-ring Mounts. 



[" Regularly go to pieces in the circuits," and comment by R. Hitchcock. 

 " This we believe need not be. Curtain-rings are exceedingly useful in 

 mounting, and it will be a pity if we must give them up. "J 



nth Ann. Rep. Amer. Post. Micr. Club, 1886, p. 15. 

 White Zinc Cement. 



[Unfavourable reports of experiences with it, and comment by R. Hitch- 

 cock.] 11*^ Ann. Rep. Amer. Post. Micr. Club, 1886, p. 15. 

 Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., VII. (1886) p. 56. 

 Whitman, C. O. — Natural Injection. (Leeches.) [Sitpra, p. 540.] 



Amer. Natural., XX. (1886) pp. 313-4. 

 Whitney, J. E.— Rapid Section-cutting. [iSwjjra, p. 539.] 



Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., 8th Ann. Meeting, 1885, pp. 122-3 (1 fig.). 

 Wiaed, M. S.— Preparing section of Human Toe-nail. 



[Place between two strips of moderately hard wood and plane off thin smooth 

 shavings with an ordinary carpenter's plane — mount in balsam and 

 benzole.] 



11th Ann. Rep. Amer. Post. Micr. Club, 1886, p. 14. 



