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AMERICAN MONTHLY 
MIGROSCOPIGAL JOURNAL 
14TH YEAR, 1893. PRICE INCREASED TO $2.00. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES by the best writers. Descriptions of Microscopical 
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revealing what the instrument is doing to combat disease, Bacteriology or 
the study of Bacilli, Diatoms or Nature’s Jewels, Biological Notes upon the 
progress in botany, entomology, agriculture and the study of all life by the 
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proceedings, Notices of Books, the Exchange and sale of Slides, etc. 
THE MICROSCOPE 
A Dollar Magazine Devoted Strictly to Elementary Microscopy. 
Price $1.00. 
This periodical, now in its 14th year, recently edited by Dr. A. C. Stokes, of 
Trenton, has been made a magazine for beginners and amateurs and will 
seek to supply every need of those entering upon this fascinating study. 
Its Query Department alone, conducted by Dr. S. G. Shanks, of Albany, 
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aa- Price for the two, constituting the only microscopical periodicals in Amer- 
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Beautiful objects mounted in ingenious covers by an English Chemist, and all 
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