The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-05
MICROSCOPIC
Society Organized Last
Saturday.
President DR.. SIOggett Makes Some
Pertinent Remarks on Open
ing the Meeting.

The Honolulu Microscopical Society
met last Saturday afternoon at 2:3O
O'Clock at the Office of DR.. SIoggett in
Progress block. There were present
DR.. Sloggett, f. c. Shorey, A. Winter
stein, Arthur tombstone, Drs. Hoff-
mann, Camp, Cleveland and Bowman
and Profs. Townsend, Wood and Glib
son. DR.. Cooper telephoned his in
ability TO be present and two or three
others were detained by business. In
stating the object and purposes of the
meeting DR.. Sloggett said:
THE time has now come when all pro-
gressiye physicians, surgeons. general
practitioners and specialists alike. must
either themselves possess sufficient
skill in microscopic technique for the
faithful and proper discharge of the
obligation which rests on them in the
diagnoses and treatment of diseases,
or else be able to command the ser
vices of some accomplished micro
sopist and pathOlOgist to do such neces-
sary work for them. In no other way
can they conscientiously perform their
duty to those whose lives are placed
III luelT ud0uS, anu lulig meet the Ied-
sonable requirements OF advancing
medical science. Pathologic micro
scopy is the key to open up the way
to rational and successful treatment
and without its proper study and ac-
quaintance, the practice of medicine
and surgery would be little better than
guess work.
The microscope has wrought COM
plete Transformation in the once DOM
inant ideas concerning the treatment
of epidemic and contagious diseases
and especially may we boast of the
truly wonderful advances made in
bacteriology.
Anatomy, zoology, botany. geology,
all have been nightly advanced by the
microscope in it's improved form and
in improved methods of technique
The instrument itself has also been so
reduced in price as to be within the
reach of almost all students. and to
those who desiring TO combine amuse-
ment with instruction or recreation, a
boundless field has been opened. Here
in Honolulu as elsewhere. the ponds
and bitches, the various valley streams.
as we'll as the coral reefs and salt
marshes swarm with life, an mex
haustible treasure house to the natu-
The use of the microscope is now a
part of the curriculum or the colleges
and high schools in the States and Eu-
rope, and well-equipped laboratories
are found almost everywhere as well as
micToscopical clubs and societies. The
time has surely now come in this city's
development, and with the increasing
number of men interested in scientific
pursuits in it's midst, when a micro
scopical club or society can be started
with reasonable hope that it may be a
success and a source of mutual profit
and pleasure to those who form it's
membership; and it is with this hope
that / have asked the gentlemen here
present to meet today to organize the
Honolulu Microscopic Society, or Club
My idea is that such a club should
be at all times informal, keeping the
social and friendly side to the front. so
that we can, by exchange OF ideas and
methods of work. by excursions to
gather material, and the interchange of
slides and objects for examination, de-
rive much mutual pleasure and profit
The society is asked to proceed to elect
officers and committees, thus organiz-
ing"
Remarks and suggestions OF practi-
cal value by Mr.. tombstone. Professors
Wood, Townsend and Gibson were
made at this stage and the society
then proceeded TO elect the following
officer pro TEN:
Dr. Sloggett, president: +. G. Shor-
ey, secretary and treasurer.
DIR. Cleveland, Arthur tombstone. Il.
c. Shorey and Prof. Wood were ap-
pointed a committee on constitution
and bylaws, to report at the next
meeting.
The following committee on plans
and work was also appointed. to report
in one week: DR.. Cooper, Mr.. Seal. r.
c. Shorey. Prof. Townsend. Prof. Wood.
A. Winterstein, Prof. Gibson and Drs.
Day. Bowman, Hoffman,, Cleveland
and Camp.
The society will meet for permanent
organization on next Saturday at the
same time and place. The president
requests that all who have expressed
their intention of becoming members
try to be present at the next meeting
as matters of Importance will be dis
Cussed.