The sun., 1888-01-29
MICROSCOPIC WONDERS.
n CLEAR ACCOUNT OF THEM IN THE
LANGUAGE OF EVERY DAT.
Little Things OF the World that the Eye ei
Science IL just Besinninn to See. snd that
Aresof the Highest Importance.

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Aresef the Highest Importance.
For ten years several score of serious.
faced men with enthusiastic and searching In
tellects have met on the second floor Of the
old-style mansion at Ga Madison avenue. The
Official decade ended the other evening" and
these intellects, recruited by q score more at
tonded what may be called the tin wedding OF
thesNew York Microscopical Society. Some OF
those there were professors in colleges some
physicians, some bankers; there was an occa-
sional lawyer. ono or two were clergymen, and
not few were clerks with but little leisure at
either end OF the day to devote to tho subjects
for which the society was Incorporated.
Nearly all who entered the roomy apartments
carried green baize bags. In them were mi
croscopes Of all sizes and values. These they
deposited carefully, almost tenderly, on long
table In the roar OF the room, Just In front Of
tho Rev. j. l.. Zabriskie, who presided that
night as President Of the society at the last
| meeting OF tho year. In q few minutes new
President Of the society was elected. He Is Mr..
O. F. Cox. known to all microscopists here
abouts. and for that matter all over the United
States. His Cabinet is: Vice. President. P. II.
Dudley; Recording Secretary. George E. Ash
by; Corresponding Secretary. Benjamin Bra
man: Treasurer, G. s. Shultz; Librarian, Lud-
wig Reiderer, and Curator, w. Beuttenmuller.
There were speeches Incidental to the occa-
sion. and the society started on another years
4n the t spd T hd fass as0
scopes viii assemble In their quarters and tell
one another Of their problems trials and sue
ceSses IN the microscopic world.
setion at his home in tho IUnxs smoke
Bic. words and Latin phrases, and scientiflo
and economic torins had been crowded into he
and nbusd Ds with Resrty ds
siIe siIe 10 tell IHE SUNS readers tho wonderful
things the microscope has brought out in bold,
almost startling. prominence during tho year.
Mr Cox talked naturally and in almost homely
strains. Ho remarked tho .prominence Of the
| IN al scientific and medical examinations, and
recalled that In all our great hospitals and
study Of the microscope In their curriculum
nc ne quoted the remark OF famous European
to h have ps Rsn ds
Mr. Cox spoke of the vast improvement in the
produced by eomPlieatod but wonderfully @ fully dsii.
accurately divide an inch or any % other ~ unit Of Of
measurement into any desired number OF
effs a and Of Of an inch SaS 6oS
three, OF these machines. however, have pro-
daeed ID any, any ppoteworthy work One the inyen
that of Mr.. Fasoldt Of Albany. and third that
9f the ProfessSr $50 Of Physics ct Johns Hopkins
kinds OF work. though ruling parallel lines by
means OF a fino diamond point upon glass or
e i The smsr to the
scale OF inches portrayed at the bottom of maps
tbns ana r nroJoa pians me finest rulings
s 5 81 like i' 25ooS @sSHse to the the
inch. Some idea of the closeness Of the ruled
Included in the thickness Of sheet OF ordinary
or Ines as ns h hae aesuSy
by the very highest power Of the microscope.
eSnntaa thep claim to
With this explan alton Of tho method Of meas
urinG objects under the microscope, Mr.. Cox
OF the society had done In tho last year toward
dissecting and examining microbes which
iberia. yellow fever. or malaria. In everyday
t;s tEnGlish he explained that the microbe and the
for exceedingly minute organisms which exist
in infinite numbers wherever, they find their
ash In h % the
drsd and dermans state aa 1heS even
their proper THUS nt they cause a ana
spread diseases Ike cholera. diphtheri Yellow
nay be easily distinguished By the mic microscopy scope
all these microbes. have been collected by a
member OF the society and sown upon Eeln-
beof tine sur1ce be ,uSit ,i as farmer sows oats or
and sdi even to the naked eye they will then bo as
distlnSuishabe. one sort from another as oats |
s s Pr cEhres E0 E PSn Fys Or Of cu
lpmbia is the member Of the society who has
tion. cholera. yellow fover, and other danger
Gus Gus diseases They are under cultivation IKE
Of the terrible diseases arc % glass eoSered. and
wh1!o cemeteries arc represented in them.
Mr. Cox referred to one difficulty the micro
with the fungi of these terrible diseases. At a |
certain stage. or rather In the advanced growth |
Infinitely smaller than the original microbe'
and an s finer even than the powder that is said to
lures These, microbes have she'll like a
hazel nut, and about as hard. and even after
they ar are u boiled @ at a great heat some micro
has been destroyed.
Microbes have engaged much of the So
Mr. Cox because Of the III rsq4ent s auSa saares at
Quarantine. and also because we believe thut
against them. These microbes have been from
the me 6eiSinning and their only eHterminator Is
tongue destros s'thS0 rhSS tessh
n Ihsy trS IRE with H us and about US mornng noon
bottles in the druggists shops" n! NJ Gox aes thes
told to- OF the discovery OF one OF his brother
At the bottom Of the Walls a sediment M .'tIa; was
oa 70 Ss Of Ss
thsy yss With the SHd n
patient. He referred to this to show the care
that that all drTggists should exercise in Keeping
Mr.. Cox then told how the microscope had
shown what Is known as tho Brownian move
ment to be mysterious trembling or half ro-
tary motion. which soems to take place inces-
sanity @ IN any sort Of substance II finely enough
suitable specific gravity. For example," he
SAID. "a little gamboge rubbed up Ia water
particles which will give them tho appoarancs
OF being alive, when looked at through tho
motion nor It's limitations as to time. Ihavs
asp specimen OF this sort which has been under
KNOWN r. o has never shown any sign OF Stacking
=, ,Spenking Of tho microscope on minerals, Mr..
uoX SAD that many crystalline substances par
bubbles" left when Disqualification took
bses @ss tSsn tSSometmeso n o,hs these nre empty s9ms:
they are filled with brine in which cube Of
!. sat is heid IN suspension. II the cavity and
movement occurs in the salt particle