62 MICROSCOPY. 
and cheapened by mixture with the refuse tea-leaves from the kitch- 
ens. Other leaves are largely prepared and sold as tea, and the 
process of improvement is further carried on by the importers al 
home. Willow leaves have been much substituted for tea, and 
have been said to be a good substitute. | 
ANOTHER ERECTOR. —A flat minor above the eye-piece was ex- 
hibited by Mr. E. Richards, as an erector for the microscope, at 
the October meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society. He uses 
a glass plate platinized in front. This littlé erector is cheap and ~ 
easily used when the microscope is in a vertical position. Itis 
not, however, easily applicable in an inclined position of the in- 
strument; and it is liable to narrow the field of view. This isa 
modification and adaptation of Mr. E. T. Newton’s apparatus pub- 
lished in the “ Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,” July, 
1871 
AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY or THE Crry or New York. 
— Rooms: Mott Memorial Building, 64 Madison Av., New York. 
Officers: President, F. A. P. Barnard, §.T.D., LL.D.; First Vive 
President; J. E.. Gavit; Second Vice President, H. G. Piffard 
M.D; Recording Secretary, J. W. S. Arnold, A.M., M.D.; Cor- 
responding Secretary, R. A. Williams, Jr., A.M. ; Treasurer E. 
C. Bogert; Curator, Samuel Jackson; Librarian, j . H. Corn 
Trustees, T. F. Harrison, C. Van Bunt, W. H. Atkinson, 
D.D.S., S. G. Perry, D.D.S., D. H. Goodwillie, M.D., TAi 
— The Medical Record. ae 
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DRAWING WITH THE Monoa 
Mr. E. T. Newton proposes, for microscopical drawing, 
reflector partially covering the eye-lens and mounted with a 
sion for rotation, so as to be easily adjusted to use with the 
ment inclined at any angle. The Beale neutral-tint reflecto 
should be mounted, for those who prefer to use it, with a s! 
rotating movement. This substitute for the camera has th : 
tional advantage of being an erecting arrangement. 
Micko-srecrroscorr. — Mr. H. G. Bridge states in the sa 
ly Microscopical Journal” that it is perfectly feasible, wi oy 
Browning’s bright-line micrometer, to record or map the § 
observed, so that the positions given shall be correct to the 
the micrometer circle. 
