926 SUMMARY OF GUBRBNT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Haacke, W. — ^Ueber die Conservation der Medusen. (On the preservation of 

 Medusffi.) IFost] Zool. Ameig., VIII. (1885) pp. 515-6, 



Haushofee, K. — Beitrage zur Mikroskopisch-Chemischen Analyse. (Contri- 

 butions to Microscopical-Chemical Analysis.) 



[_Fost. A small filtering apparatus is also described and figured.] 



SB. E. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, 1885, pp. 206-26 (1 fig.). 

 [Hitchcock, E.] — Prof. H. L. Smith's New Mounting Medium. 



[Defence of Prof. Smith for not having published the formula. " We are 

 not at present authorized by Prof. Smith to make any statement con- 

 cerning this matter, but from what we know, and have learned from 

 conversation with Prof. Smith some time ago, we are assured that there 

 are excellent reasons why the composition is still withheld from the 

 public."] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., VI. (1885) p. 157. 

 „ „ Microsoopical Exhibitions. 



[Reply to a correspondent who insists that the " general public does not 

 want to be instructed as much as it wants to be amused." " Before we 

 reach a conclusion so uncomplimentary to the intelligence of the public 

 as that of our correspondent, we shoiild at least try the experiment of 

 making interesting to the mind objects not specially attractive to the 

 eye. The experiment has yet to be systematically tried. The criticism 

 to be made upon our exhibitions generally is that they are mere displays 

 of fine objects, and those who look at them are not able to learn what 

 they are. Even the wing-case of the diamond-beetle gains in interest by 

 a few words of explanation, especially if the scales of a butterfly's wing 

 are shown beside it and their relation to it briefly stated."] 



Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., VI. (1885) pp. 158-9, 160, 

 HoTLE, W. E. — Preserving Eggs of Cephalopoda, and Preparing Blastoderms, 

 [Post.'] 



Nature, XXXII. (1885) p. 506 (Report to British Association). 

 James, F. L. — Arrangement ofWork-table. 



[Brief suggestions for the places of instruments, &c., " so that no time is lost 

 in putting the hand directly upon the desired instrument or object."] 



The Microscope, V. (1885) pp. 190-1, from National Druggist. 

 „ „ Elementary Microscopical Technology. 



[Bell's Cement. Seller's Cement. Casein Cement. Marine Glue. Chrome 

 Cement.] 



Micr. Bulletin (Queen's), II. (1885) pp. 25-6, from National Druggist. 

 J u LIEN, A. A. — The Sealed Flasks of Crystal. 



[Fluid-cavities in quartz. Directions for preparing the material and for 

 examination under the Microscope. Detection of the chemical nature of 

 the contained liquids and gases — post. Immersion warm stage^pos^ 

 — &c.] 



Journ. N. York Micr. Soc, I. (1885) pp. 129-44. 

 KiJKENTHAL, W. — ^Dio mikroskopische Technik im zoologischen Praktikum, 

 (Microscopical technique in practical zoology.) 



37 pp. and 3 figs., 12mo, Jena, 1885. 

 Lang TON, W. — Thoma's Microtome. Its practical and theoretical advantages. 

 Trans, and Ann. Sep. Manchester Micr. Soc, 1884-5, pp. 29-31. 

 Latham, V. A. — The Anatomy of the Cockroach. 



[Directions for bleaching and mounting wing, gizzard, eyes, &c.] 



Sci.-Gossip, 1885, pp. 210-1, 

 Lendeneeld, R. t. — The method of Section-cutting, with some improvements. 

 IPost.] Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, X. (1885) pp. 23-4, 



Leuokhaet, E. — ^MittheUung. 



[In praise of the preservative methods in use at the Naples Zoological 

 Station; the skill of Salvatore in preserving with all their natural 

 appearances such delicate creatures as Siphonophora having conferred a 

 gi-eat boon upon working zoologists by rendering it possible to study 

 these creatures in a museum as well as when living in the sea.] 



Zool. Anzeig., VIII. (1885) p. 333. 



