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instrument, which is used not only to focus with, but also to make the requisite allowance for actinic variation.

"The negative intended to be reduced is then arranged vertically, with its centre in the axis of the microscopic body, at a distance of from two to four feet from the lower object-glass, and with a convenient screen of card, wood, or thick paper, to cut off any extraneous light that would otherwise pass beyond the limits of the picture.

"A small camphine-lamp is employed for the purpose of illuminating the negative, having a good bull's-eye lens as a condenser, so arranged with its flat side next the lamp that the refracted rays shall just fill the whole of a double convex lens of about six inches in diameter, the latter being placed in such a position as to refract the rays of light in a parallel direction upon the negative. By this arrangement the bull's-eye lens of about two inches and a half in diameter appears as the source of the light instead of the small flame of the lamp.

"By using a bat's-wing gas-burner of a good size, a single lens, instead of the two, may be so placed as to give the necessary uniformity of illumination."

This arrangement requires the same care in working as that before mentioned, the pictures being produced, developed, and fixed by the same treatment.

As before stated, almost every manipulator makes some small changes in the method of producing these minute pictures; but the rules given, though far from new, are sufficient for all purposes; and I may state with truth, that those which I procured when these wonders were quite new, are fully equal in every respect to the best usually met with at the present time.

With these instructions I shall close my Handbook, as I believe that every branch of Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects has been treated of. Not that the beginner can expect that he has nothing to do except read this to be able to mount everything; but there are difficulties from which he may be freed by instruction,

when otherwise he would have been compelled to learn by failure alone. I may, here, however, repeat certain advice before given, that, when practicable, it is a good thing to mount each object by two or more different methods, as very frequently one feature is best shown dry, another in liquid, and a third in balsam. Secondly, let the mounting be studied thoroughly, as no part of the microscopic science is more worthy of thought than this. And lastly, let no failures prevent you following up what will assuredly one day become a source of great pleasure, and render your daily "constitutional walk," which is often dull in the extreme, very delightful, as it will afford you some new wonder in every hedge-row.

INDEX.

AIR-BUBBLES, 56.

Air-pump, 13; use of, 57.

Alcock, Dr., on tongues of Mol-
lusca, 118.

Algæ, mounting of, 91.

Anacharis alsinastrum, rotation
in, 143; to cultivate, 144.
Animal tissues, dissection of, 114.
Antennæ of insects, 71; in pre-
servative liquid, 94.

Apparatus required in mounting
objects, i.

Arteries, how to distinguish, in
injection, 131.

Asparagus, spiral vessels of, 114.
Asphaltum, 15; and india-rubber,

as cement and varnish, 18.

BAT, circulation of blood in wings
of, 142.

Beale's, Dr., Prussian blue for in-
jecting, 134; carmine, 135.
Bell-glasses, use of, 12.
Berg-mehl, 40.

Bermuda earth, 40.

Bichromate of lead, injection with,
132.

Bird, Dr. Golding, on preparation
of Zoophytes, 65.
Black-japan, as a cement, 16.
Black varnish, 18.
Blood, as a microscopic object,
50; circulation of, 140-142.
Bone, sections of, 102; fossil,
103.

Brass plate for heating glasses,
&c., 13.

CACTACEE, raphides of, 52.
Camel-hair pencils, use of, 10.
Canada balsam, 14; with chloro-
form, 14, 60, 132; with turpen-
tine, 14; air bubbles in, 56;
Dr. Carpenter's syringe for,
59; to fill cells with, 60; mount-
ing of objects in, 56.
Carbolic acid, 86.

Carmine injecting fluid, Dr.
Beale's, 135; Dale & Davies',
138.
Cartilage, dissection of, 114.
Castor oil, as a preservative, 86.
Cells for dry objects, 6; with rings
of cardboard, 7; with gutta-
percha, 7; with leather, 7;
with ivory, 8; with thin glass,
7; with varnish, 23, 26; for
balsam, 60; for preservative
liquids, 87-89; Shadbolt's
turntable useful in making,
9.
Cements, 13-17.

Chalk, foraminifera from, 63.
Chara vulgaris, rotation in, 144.
Chloride of zinc, solution of, 85;
of calcium, solution of, 92.
Chloroform, use of (see Canada
balsam).

Circulation of blood, 140-142; of
sap (see Rotation).

Cleanliness in microscopic work, | Elastic objects, to keep flat upon

1.

Coal, sections of, 99.

Collection of diatoms, 29.
Colours for injection, 125-127.
Condenser, cheap, to make, 20.
Corals, sections of, 99.
Corallines, to mount, 48.

Cover of objects, to remove, 60.
Crystals, mounting of, dry, 50;
to vary form of, and mount in
balsam, 75; sections of, 109.
Cuticle of equisetum, &c., 80.

the slide, 11.
Electrical cement, 16.

Equisetaceæ, 80; spores of, 146.
Erector, not indispensable, 19.
Eyes of insects, 70, 54; of ani-
mals injected, 136.

FEATHERS, 73.

Feet of insects, 54, 71.

Ferns, 51; development of spores
of, 145.

Fish, fins and tails of, 50; scales
of, 53, 78; injection of, 137;
circulation of blood in, 142
Flint, sections of, 101.

DALE & DAVIES', carmine injec- Fluid, mounting objects in, 83.

tion, 138.

[blocks in formation]

Desmidiacea, in preservative li-
quid, 92.

Diachæa elegans, 53.
Diamond beetle, 54.
Diatomaceæ, nature of, 28; col-
lection of, 29; in stomachs of
fish, 30; to prepare and mount
dry, 30-40; Mr. Rylands on,
33; in guano, 39; fossilized,
40; mounting in balsam, 61;
mounting in preservative
liquids, 92, 93.
Discs used in mounting, 22;
supporter, Smith & Beck's, 23.
Dissection, 111; microscope for,
111; instruments for, 112.
Distilled water, as preservative
liquid, 83.

Doyer's, M., method of injection,
132.

Dry objects, to mount, 22.

[blocks in formation]

Flustra avicularis, 79.
Fly (see Insects).

Foot of sheep injected, 136.
Foraminifera, 41; separation of,
41; to clean, 42; to clean from
tallow soundings, 42; to mount,
45, 63; from chalk, 63.
Forceps, ordinary and wooden,
11; bull-nosed, for injection,
123.

Fossil infusoria, 40.

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