586 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



wild chase after the phantom lines till death overtook him one night 

 as he sat in his barren room surrounded by glittering brass tubes and 

 flashing accessories, and his last breath was spent in a feeble attempt 

 to whisper faintly ' wider-angle.' "] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., III. (1882) p. 99-100. 

 Cakbtjtt, J. — Photo-micrography. 



Report of an address to the Oamden Microscopical Society — post.'] 



The Microscope, II. (1882) pp. 43-4. 

 Coin's (A. 0.) 24 sections of starch-bearing vegetables aud starch-granules. 

 [Description of some of the slides.] 



North. Microscopist, II. (1882) p. 195. 

 Coombes, C. P. — Cutting Sections of Soft Tissue. 



[Description of Coppinger's and Dr. Rutherford's Microtomes and the 

 plans of Dr. L. Clarke and of Dr. Klein (or German histologists) for 

 cutting sections without apparatus.] 



Journ. Post. Micr. Soc, I. (1882) pp. 61-3. 

 Dippel, L. — [Remarks on the paper of J. W. Stephenson, ante, p. 163.] 



Bot. Centralbl., XI. (1882) pp. 105-6. 



Egeb, L., and M. Lessona. — H raccoglitore naturalista, guida pratica per rac- 



cogliere, preparare, conservare i corpi organici ed inorganici. 2nd ed. (The 



Collecting Naturalist, practical guide for collecting, preparing, and preserving 



organic and inorganic bodies.) 8vo, Torino, 1882, 123 pp. 



Elcock's Type-slides of Foraminifera. 



[Description of the slides, which contain 50 species arranged in squares 

 with the name of each photographed in readable type.] 



Journ. Post. Micr. Soc, I. (1882) p. 104. 



Ermengem, E. Van. — Demonstration de preparations de bacteries de la tuber- 



culose. (Exhibition of preparations of bacteria of tuberculosis.) [Supra, p. 574.] 



Bull. Soc. Belg. de Micr., VII. (1882) pp. cxvii.-cxxii. 



Fleming, J. — Mounting Volvox in Glycerine Jelly. 



[Reply to T. R. B. — "I boiled the Volvox in the jelly on the slide, the 

 cover-glass being held in position during the boiling process by a rather 

 loose clip."] 



North. Microscopist, II. (1882) p. 192. 

 Freeman, H. E. — Sphseraphides of Cactus. 



[Directions for separating them — they show best with a little light from 

 below or with spot-lens.] 



Journ. Post. Micr. Soc, I. (1882) p. 94. 

 Griffith, C. H. — Cutting Sections of Coal. \_Supra, p. 578.] 



Sci.-Gossip, 1882, p. 137. 

 Harris, "W. H. — Sections of Coal. [Supra, p. 577.] 



Sci.-Gossip, 1882, p. 137. 

 Hitchcock, R. — Photographing with the Microscope. 



[Detailed directions fur photographing with the dry-plate process.] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., III. (1882) pp. 88-92 (2 figs.). 



„ „ Aperture and Resolution. 



[Remarks as to alleged resolution of 152,000 lines to the inch {ante, p. 416) 



and as to the appearance of lines in an image being no evidence that 



the image is produced by lines, and that the presence of lines in a 



photograph does not prove that the object is a lined object.] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., III. (1882) p. 96. 

 „ „ Pond Life. 



[Recommendation of Balen's tubes.] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., III. (1882) p. 116. 



See also Amer. Natural, XVI. (1882) p. 618. 



Holmes, E. — On the Continuous Observation of Minute Animalcula. [Post.'] 



Sci.-Gossip, 1882, pp. 138, 160. 



.,, „ Observations on Living Organisms. 



[Inquiry as to the means adopted by those who have been successful in 



the continuous observation under the Microscope of very small and 



active organisms.] Sci.-Gossip, 1882, p. 159. 



