San Francisco Microscopical Society

All scientists of the Bay Area interested in the advancement of MICROSCOPY and PHOTOMICROGRAPHY are cordially invited to meet in the Auditorium of the San Francisco Health Department, 101 Grove Street, Civic Center, San Francisco, California, on Friday evening, October 4th, 1946, at 8 P.M. to organize and elect officers for the SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.

One of the first microscopical societies in the United States was organized in San Francisco on June 4th, 1870, and incorporated in 1872 as the San Francisco Microscopical Society.  This organization had a very successful existence for more than a third of a century, disbanding after the Fire of 1906.

The Society had its own rooms in downtown San Francisco for many years with microscopes, a photomicrographic optical bench, dark room, slide collection and library available to the members.  The membership included many prominent microscopists: Dr. J. H. Wythe, author of a standard book on the microscope, Professor Frank T. Green, Toxicologist for the City of San Francisco for many years, Dr. Gustav Eisen, later of Columbia University, New York, Mr. E. W. Runyon, Dr. Sallard of Palo Alto, and many others.  After a lapse of forty years, the formation of a new Society to carry on the high ideals of the original organization is a most worthy effort and deserving of the full support of all serious workers with the microscope.

Following the above business meeting, Mr. George H. Needham, past President of the New York Microscopical Society and Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, will show 2x2" KODACHROME and ANSCO COLOR PHOTOMICROGRAPHS taken with Transmitted, Dark Field and Polarized Light.

GEORGE H. NEEDHAM, M.Sc., F.R.M.S.
San Francisco, California
(President, New York Microscopical Society, 1931-1932)