630 General Notes. [ October, 
been for years Director of Greenland. It will be in one volume, and, 
besides giving à general history of Greenland and its people, will contain 
an appendix relating to the natural history and meteorology of the 
country, and will be illustrated by a series of plates (fac-similes of draw- 
ings by the Greenland Eskimo, some of which have already found their 
way into the United States) and a new map. 
It appears that the great harvest of white bear-skins is obtained in 
Greenland from the extreme south, when the bears come on the ice 
drifted around Cape Farewell in the current from the east coast; that 
some are taken on the ice round Upernavik in the far north, but that 
bears are very scarce between Julianehaab and Upernavik. The cod- 
fish are mainly taken on the Torske Bank, off Sukkertoppen, and the 
narwhal horns are entirely from North.Greenland. 
MICROSCOPY.’ 
Microscopy at THRE American Association, — The subsection of 
microscopy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
which has hitherto been a transient organization, temporarily formed 
whenever necessary, was established as a permanent body at the Buffalo 
meeting in August last. In addition to business connected with the de- 
tails of organization, nine papers were read, and many interesting dis- 
cussions were héld. Two evenings were occupied, one by an informal 
soirée at the rooms of the subsection, and the other by a very successful 
reception tendered by the Buffalo Microscopical Club. The members 
present were cordially and unanimously in favor of the permanent oF 
ganization. Dr. R. H. Ward, of Troy, was elected chairman for the 
first year, ending with the Nashville meeting next August. It is ear- 
nestly desired and hoped that the microscopists of the country will take 
such an active interest in the organization as to secure for themselves 
and others the really great advantages which it offers. 
Dovsie-Stainep Muscurar Fieres. — Dr. Geo. D. Beatty calls 
attention to the Lissotriton punctatus (the smooth-skin newt) and the 
Amphiuma tridactylum as microscopical treasures, the muscular fibres, 
especially of the tongue, being particularly beautiful, the transverse 
striæ being very well marked, and the nuclei very large in both spectes, 
with a one-fifth objective and A ocular. The tissues should be 
stained for the nuclei with carmine and with pieric acid, to, bring ii 
the transyerse strie. ‘The tissue is hardened by ninety-five per cente 
alcohol, followed by absolute alcohol, and sections cut in a sec 
chine or fibres teased out carefully with needles. The sections or th 
are placed for one minute in twenty-five per cent. alcohol, 50 
five minutes in Dr. J. J. Woodward’s borax-carmine solution, soak 
about ten minutes in alcohol acidulated with twenty per cent of hya" 
1 Conducted by Dr. R. H. Warp, Troy, N. Y. 
