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ABSTRACT BY the death of MR. EDMUND J. SPITTA on January 21, at sixty-eight years of age, microscopical science has lost another earnest student and exponent. While in general medical

practice for many years, Mr. Spitta found time to contribute to more than one branch of microscopy, and his retirement to Hove several years ago enabled him to devote the remaining years of

his life to the subject. He took an active part in the proceedings of the Quekett Microscopical Club, of which he was, a past-president, and of the Royal Microscopical Society, of which, as

well as of the Royal Astronomical Society, he was a past vice-president. Mr. Spitta made some contributions to the subject of pond life, but it was particularly photomicrography and the

optics of the microscope to which he directed his energies. So far back as 1898 he published, in collaboration with Mr. Charles Slater, an “Atlas of Bacteriology” containing more than a

hundred plates of photomicrographs of bacteria. More recently he brought put his “Photomicrography,” and many of his photomicrographs of diatoms are of great excellence. His book on

“Microscopy,” the third edition of which was published last year, is a general treatise on the construction, optics, and use of the microscope. To the Royal Microscopical Society Mr. Spitta

contributed in 1911 a note on Winkel lenses and oculars and a report on the value of some Gray son's rulings, the latter entailing a considerable amount of work, and in 1913 he reported

on a collection of lenses and other optical apparatus made by Joseph Jackson Lister, the father of Lord Lister, and presented to the Royal Microscopical Society on the death of the latter.

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