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Summary of Current Resb arches, &c. — continued. 



Abnormal Hymenomycetes 101 



Phosphorescent Agaric 101 



New Ascomycetes 102 



New Entyloma . . . . 102 



Coremium of Verticillium 102 



Exoascus 102 



Sporendonema casei Desm 102 



Entomophthorex 103 



Influence of Acids on Fermentation and on the Development of Torula .. 103 



Influence of. Alcohol on the Development of Torula 104 



2^ew Species of Mortierella (Mucorini) 104 



Development of Mould-Fungi in the Bodies of Men and other Animals .. 104 



Physiological Effects of various Ferments 105 



Carriage of Schizomycetes through the Air 106 



Transition hetween forms of Schizomycetes 106 



Fatty Bodies as Generators of Bacteria 1 06 



Phosphorescence caused by Bacteria 106 



Inoculation of Tuberculosis through Bespiration 106 



Parasitic Myxomycetes 107 



Marchesettia, a New Genus of Floridese 107 



Chromophyton Bosanoffii 108 



Phyllosiphon Arisari 108 



Argentine and Patagonian Algx 109 



Swedish Pediastrex, Protoooccacese, and Palmellacex 1 09 



Crenothrix KUhniana as a Contaminator of Water 110 



Alga parasitic on a Snake Ill 



Structure of Diatoms Ill 



Microscopy. 



Boecker's Air-pump Microscope (Fig. 7) 112 



Improved Griffith Club Microscope (Figs. 8-10) 113 



" Midget" Microscope (Fig. 11) 116 



Microscopes for the Examination of Divided Circles (Figs. 12 and 13) .. 116 



Abbe's Camera Lucida 119 



Camerse Lucidse of Nobert and of Doyere and of Milne-Edwards (Figs. 14 



and 15) 119 



Grunoiv's Camera Lucida 120 



Objectives of Large Aperture 120 



Abbe's Method of Testing Objectives (Figs. 16-19) .. 120 



Hardy's Chromatoscope (Figa. 20 and 21) 126 



Chmdlach's Suhstage Befracior 127 



Tolles' Frontal-prism Illuminator (Fig. 22) 127 



Warm and Moist Stages (FigB. 23-25) 128 



Dibdin's Hot Stage 131 



Caton's Fish-trough (Fig. 2Q) 132 



Dayton's Modification of the Wenham Half-disk Illuminator (Figs. 27-28) 133 



Carbonic Acid as a Narcotic for Marine Animals 137 



CoraUin as a Microscopical Reagent 138 



Preparing Bacillus tuberculosis 139 



Staining Bacteria 140 



Preparing Fatty Acids .. .. 141 



Carmine Solution .. , 141 



Prussian Blue and Safranine for Plant-sections 142 



Injection Masses 142 



Taylor's Freezing Microtome (Fig. 29) 143 



Mounting Media 144 



Preparation of Dammar Varnish 145 



Hunt's American Cement 145 



Mayer's Water Bath ((Fig. 30) 145 



Packing Slides far Travelling 146 



Examination of Living Germs in Water 146 



Sinel's Emhryological Slides 147 



Search for " Atlantis " with the Microscope 148 



Cole's Studies in Microscopical Science 149 



Proceedings of the Society 153 



