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SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



D, the position of the Microscope wlien used witli the camera lucida for 

 delineating objects, or when employed with the polariscope, or where pure 

 transmitted light is alone admissible; E, the reagent-stand." 



Ward's Catalogue of Microscopical Collections. — Dr. E. H. Ward has 

 prepared a convenient form of catalogue for recording a large number of 

 brief data of objects. Each double page has space for 10 objects and the 

 data are grouped in four columns. Below is a specimen of the heading of 

 a page and one of the 10 spaces ; the columns for preparation and mount- 

 ting are not, however, beneath the other two but run across the right-hand 

 page. Each book contains space for 1000 or 2000 objects as preferred. 

 There is an appendix for long notes, special methods, formulae, &c., and an 

 alphabetical index. 



{Left-hand Page.) 



Name. 



c. Common Name. 

 Slide s. Scientific Name. 

 No. N. Special points shown, Illumination 

 or Powers required, Keference to 

 authorities, &c. 



SODKCE. 



h. Habitat or Locality. 

 c. Collector (Presented, Purchased, 

 Exchanged, &c.) 



N 



{Right-hand Page.) 



Mounting. 

 Mounting Medium. 

 Cell and Cement. 



Cover-glass I d. Date. I Ic. Location in 

 Thickness. | | Cabinet. 



Repairs or Disposal (Broken : Cement 

 run in : Air in : Given to or Exchanged 

 with, &c.). 



Dr. Dallinger's Address.— The following * is a popular appreciation of 

 Dr. Dallinger's last address. 



" It is difficult to say whether the wonders that reward the patient 

 servants of science are more attractive in the direction of the infinitely little 

 or of the infinitely great. In both of these fields there are faithful workers, 

 constantly striving to enlarge for us the bounds of human knowledge, albeit 



* Daily Telegrapli, lt)th Feb., 1887, p. 5. 



