New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-10
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
SECRETS OF NATURE LAID BARE FOR
CURIOUS EYES.
AN INTENSELY INTERESTING EXHIBITION BY THE
NEWyoPK MICROsCOPICAI. SOCIETY.

| AN INTENSELY INTERESTING EXHIBITION By THE
NEW YORK MICROsCorICM SOCIETY
The New-York MicroscOpical Society held its six
| teenth and certainly its most successful annual
| exhibition last night at the American NluSeum OIL
| Natural History. The second floor was given up to
! tire society and there were tables on every side
! on which the members of the society showed their
! choicest specimens and d more interesting exhibit
| has seldom been seen. An encouraging feature.
! too. the crowd of women and men VINO came
to learn something about Natures marvels
| CLEANED through the microscope The exhibitors
were old and young. The tables on when the
exhibits were shown were hghted up VIII" eSpeciai
| electric lamps go
| In Above ! was a collection of apparatus illus
trating the history and evolution OF the moaern
microscope The arrangement is partly based on
the dates of production. as far these are known
"A means being thus afforded of observing a
modern instrument, a beautiful combinaton Of
mechanical ana Optical PrncPieS' anSt 17 ana
The students of the College Of the city or New
York who members Of the society had most
interesting exhibit consisting OF hSh-hatchlng,
various stages of young FISH, shown by Douglas
Bayard 5. Cairns antennae of various insects. ex-
hib!ted by Hermann A. Loos; bachh OF diphthera.
shown by Walter :. Cameron; tongue of mollusk.
with she'll containing borings, exhibited by James
+. W. Devoe exhibited the circulation of blood in
ne tan or the tadpole ana tnv moVJnrh' P pr soo
William Bentenmulier exhibited the scales OF me
feathering of the insects wing. Or. ;. +. Clarke
had wonderfully interesting exhibit in series OF
embryOs of the alligator and the chick in the same
of incubation. Illustrating the close enlhry-
onic resemblance of adult forms SO widely different
as an alligator and fowl The exhibit Included an
alligator embryo Of four days, a chick embryo 81
four days Older enbryoS, alligator embryo sew
eral weeks Old section through the base of the head
of an alligator embryo to show the development or
the eyes
The Rev. j. l.. Zabriske showed the soldier OF one
OF the common ant tribes most formidable beast
with strong manlibies and enormous head. q. Ii.
Wilson had hydra under the lens. and this IN
initesimal inhabitant Of ponds could be seen TO
from the parent animal and then detach Itself.
George W. Kosmak showed the various stages in
the incubation Of the hens egg, illustrating the
formation of the embryo chick and its relations 10
the yolk and other parts Of the egg. The organs
of the adult body shown In their primitive
conditions. The beating heart could be seen. and
also the blood circulation the surface Of the
yolk, from which the nutriment is taken during the
period of incubation
The following are the officers Of tho society who
looked after the comfort of their guests most zeal
ously: Edward G. Love, president; Frank u. Skeol
vice president: George T. Ashby. recording
tary the Rev j. l.. Zcbriske. corresponding score
tary; James Walker, treasurer, and Ludwig Red
orer, librarian