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C6) Miscellaneous. 
Paris Exhibition, 1889. — The following English opticians obtained 
rewards at the last Paris Exhibition, though not necessarily for Micro- 
scopes alone : — 
Grand Prize. — Messrs. Ross & Co. 
Gold Medals. — Mr. J. F Dallmeyer, Mr. J. Pillischer, and Messrs. 
Watson & Sons.* 
Carlisle Microscopical Society. — The official report which we have 
received embodies a resume of the work done by this vigorous provincial 
Society since its foundation in the year 1881, and especially since its 
affiliation with the Royal Microscopical Society in 18b3. The Society 
was inaugurated by a public address delivered to a large audience by its 
first President, the Rev. Canon Carr, who afterwards gave a series of 
educational papers on Vegetable Histology. Papers have been read at 
successive meetings by various members of the Society on such subjects 
as the adulteration of food, water, coal fossils, trichina, diseases of 
plants, animal physiology, photomicrography, the Microscope in manu- 
factures, slide-mounting, and others too numerous to mention. Frequent 
excursions have been made by the Society to collect material for micro- 
scopical examination. Two public lectures have been delivered to 
crowded audiences by the Rev. Dr. Ballinger, and one by Sir Robert S. 
Ball, Astronomer lioyal for Ireland, who has also promised to give 
another in the course of the present session. The aim of the Society 
has been eminently a practical one, and much earnest work has been 
done. The President of the Society is C. S. Hall, Esq., and the Hon. 
Vice-Presidents, Prof. Pasteur and the Rev. Dr. Ballinger. 
Orthography of the Microscope. — There is no word which is so 
variously spelt as “ Microscope ” or (with “ microscopical,” &c.) so 
often misspelt by printers. 
The form “ Miscroscope ” occurs times out of number. 
The Germans, apart from the standard form of “ Mikroskop,” also 
spell it “ Mikroscop,” “ Microskoj),” and “ Microscop.” 
“ Microscrope” appears in Proc. Ainer. Soc. Micr., 1886. 
“ Mikrospischen ” is found in Stengleiu’s ‘ Anleitung,’ 1887. 
“ Miroscopical ” in Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., viii. (1887) j). 19, and 
this Journal, 1887, p. 1039. 
“ Microscopial ” in ‘The Microscope,’ 1888, p. 108. 
“ Mikrokopiker ” in ‘ Flora,’ 1888, j). 39. 
Mr. Crisp and this Journal. — The ‘ Athenseum ’ says : — “ Micro- 
scopists, abroad as well as at home, will hear with great regret that 
Mr. Frank Crisp is about to resign the office of Secretary to tlie Royal 
Microscopical Society, which he has held for twelve years. During that 
period the character and position of the Society have been greatly im- 
proved, and the numerous microscopical societies which have sprung uj) 
elsewhere have come to regard it as their common parent ; the number 
of its Fellows has been doubled, and its Journal has been converted into 
one of the most useful aids to research which are now put into the hands 
* Cf. Journ. d. IMicrogr., xiii. (1S89) pp. 181-93, and Mr. J. Mayall, junr., this 
Journal, 1889, pj). 851-2. 
