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exceedingly interesting. When we mention that S. Weir 
Mitchell and Joseph Leidy are active members of the Society, 
it is superfluous to add that valuable observations and dis- 
cussions are recorded in the proceedings forwarded to us. 
The State of Illinois, with that great appreciation of the 
value of true knowledge which characterises it, has inau- 
gurated a Society to be called “ the State Microscopical 
Society of Illinois.” Our friends are not afraid of making, 
the State do for the individuals what they cannot so well do 
for themselves. We have to await such a disposition in 
Britain. We regret that we must refuse the invitation to a 
conversazione given by the State Society. 
