202 Scientific News. [ March, 
the number of prominent microscopists in that vicinity, an active 
and successful society may be looked for. The first officers are 
as follows: President, Prof. S. A. Lattimore; vice-president, = 
. Merriman; secretary, Dr. E. Line; treasurer, Dr, 
Rider. 
AMERICAN QUARTERLY MICROSCOPICAL _Joorsar —This new 
einer is published by Hitchcock and Wall, at No. 150 Nassau 
street, New York. The second number, fide published, fully 
justifies the promise of the first, and establishes the Journal as a 
carefully edited and liberally published work, characterized by an 
abundance of elaborate memoirs upon microscopical subjects. 
Illustrations of a high grade are introduced when required. An 
able summary is also given of recent news and publications; though 
it may be doubted whether the news as such, can be given in a 
quarterly with sufficient promptness to meet all the ear greet 
of modern science. It only remains for those who use the micro- 
scope or study its revelations to decide whether they will reticle 
the new enterprise permanent by making it self-sustaining. A good 
subscription list is all that is required in addition to what the pro- 
prietors have already accomplishe 
SALE oF A MicroscopicaL LiprAry.—The library of the late Jno. 
E. Gavitt is now being broken up, and catalogues of the books 
for sale can be ea i FA from his son, W. E. Gavitt, of Stockbridge, 
Mass. The library includes many rare and almost inaccessible 
works, which will he doubly valuable as s epee of one of the 
earliest American cultivators of Microscopy. Mr. Gavitt also 
possesses a very fine copper-plate porrak of old Anthony von 
Leeuwenhoek, which, though not specified in the catalogue, could 
probably be obtained by any one who would appreciate it at its 
re 
TER Crips.—E. H. Hawley, of 102 Grove street, New 
Haven, Conn., has recently made spring clips for the use of several 
distinguished ‘histologists. The clips are very light and neat, be- 
ing made of light steel wire, and having a leather disk instead of 
a cork to press on the cover. They can be bought for seventy- 
five cents per dozen. 
20: 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
- — WE are sorry to learn that the Legislatures of Georgia and 
North Carolina have suspended the geological surveys of those 
States. This is much to be regretted, since both regions will 
amply repay to the people the small amounts heretofore expended 
on them, if only continued lon enough to permit the results to 
be elaborated and published. These measures are a blow at the 
educational interests of those States which we had not looked for 
from so-called “ reform” oo 
