408 General Notes. [June, 
Geographical Miles. 
35 
5a. Bagomoyo to Zanzibar 
6. Bagomoyo to north Of Lake Nyassacicey dx) } fate eA se EAS 290 
7. Down cake Nyass Aip I ivingstoni ia 300 
8. Livingstonia to Tet ORENA bid bhi 145 
9. Tete to oan CUER 820 
: 3335 
To which must be added for deviations, say about one-fifth, viz:....... 667 
S TET PR POCE EE E ERE E nme ak E E A 4002 
The practicability of making and keeping open such a line is as- 
serted by Capt. Cameron, Mr. H. M. Stanley, Mr. Ziegler, Di: 
rector of the London and Red Sea Coast Telegraphs, Sir. F. 
Goldsmid, of the overland Indian Telegraph, and others. Mean- 
while the British Government has decided to lay a cable from 
Aden to Zanzibar, thence to Port Natal via Mozambique and 
Delagoa bay. adagascar and the Mauritius may also be con- 
nected with this line. 
MICROSCOPY. ? 
AMERICAN Society oF Microscopists.—This Society, which 
was the outgrowth of, the Microscopical Congress at Indianapo- 
lis, last summer, is making arrangements to meet at Buffalo on 
Tuesday morning, August 19th, with the probability that its ses- 
sions will continue until Friday night the 22d. This will leave 
ample time for those who wish to attend also the meeting of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Sara- 
toga, on the 27th of the same month. The people of Buffalo 
have organized a local committee, with sub-committees on finance, 
on transportation, on accommodations and rooms, on entertain- 
ments, and on microscopical soirée. The place for headquarters 
of the Society, and for holding the meetings, has not yet been 
S. a few years ago, will need no assurance that the meeting 
will be made pleasant as well as profitable. 
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON Micrometry.—This committee, in 
the formation of which most of the active microscopical societies 
of the country have taken part, has been organized with the fol- 
lowing officers and members: F. A. P. Barnard, LL.D., president 
of Columbia College, N. Y. city, chairman R. H. “Ward, M.D., 
roy, N.Y., secretary; George E. Fell, C.E., "Buffalo, NY; . Henry 
Jameson, M.D., Indianapolis, Indiana ; Prof. S, A. Lattimore, 
Rochester, N.Y.; Prof. dward W. Morley, Hudson, Ohio; Jos- 
eph G. Richardson, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.; Prof. Stephen E 
Sharples, Bost n, Mass.; Prof. H. L. Smith, Geneva, N.Y.; Prof. 
Albert H. Tuttle, Columbus, Ohio ; EF oaia M.D, Wash- 
1 This aperea T R. H. WARD, Troy, N. Ne 
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