260 . Scientific News. [ March, 
Ye Microscope OF YE OLDEN TimE.—Under this title Professor 
E. F. Moody delivered an interesting lecture' before the Micro- 
- scopical Society of Camden, which has just been published in 
pamphlet form by the society. Incited by an engraving and 
description of. John Marshall’s, new double microscope in the 
Lexicon Technicum, published in 1704, which presents many of 
the features of the instruments and their methods of arrangement 
and use at the present day, he reviews the history of the micro- 
scope and its discoveries in England during the last of the 17th 
and the early part of the 18th century, chiefly by means of 
extracts from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 
The author is greatly impressed with the keenness of observation, 
scientific skill and rare deductive power which is displayed in the 
microscopical studies of those early days, and he gives them in 
the quaint and thoughtful words of their original publication. 
After the death of Lewenhoeck, and the acquisition by the Royal 
Society of his valuable legacy, consisting of a cabinet containing 
his microscopes and their accompanying objects, this brilliant age 
of microscopy came to an end, and the Transactions show noth- 
ing of corresponding interest until the sudden advent of the age 
of Wollaston near the end of the 18th century. 
ABNORMAL EntTozoa In Man.—Rev. Samuel Lockwood's paper 
on this subject, read before the New Jersey State Microscopical 
Society, is full of curious facts in regard to the rather unfamiliar 
and somewhat unprepossessing theme. It is published in full in 
the January number of the American Fournal of Microscopy. 
ExcHANGES.—Parties desire to correspond with persons who 
can furnish new material containing Polyctstina ; also Podure of 
spring-tails of various species. Address the Editor of this De 
partment of the NATURALIST. 
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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The first number of Papilio, organ of the New York Ento- 
mological Club and devoted. exclusively to Lepidoptera has made 
its appearance, and avery neat and pleasing one it is. It will be 
issued about the fifteenth of each month, the subscription price 
being $2 perannum. The publication committee are Messrs. A. 
R. Grote, Henry Edwards and T. L. Mead; subscriptions and 
communications should be addressed to Mr. Henry Edwards, 185 
East 116th street, New York City. We hope that the journal 
will give stimulus to our knowledge of the metamorphoses*o 
the Lepidoptera, which has been somewhat neglected ; the paper of 
Mr. Coquillet on the early stages of some moths is, we hope, an 
earnest of what may follow. A number of new species of moths 
are described by Messrs. Grote, Neumoegen and Edwards ; and 
the number is illustrated by a colored plate of Edwardsia brilhans 
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