INDEX. 



375 



Mounting, apparatus for, 363 

 Movements, ciliary, 161 



,, molecular, 172 



, , of granules within cells, 1 72 



,, primary or vital, occurring 



in living beings, 1 70 

 Moving in all directions, 170 

 Mucous membrane, 131 

 Mucus corpuscle, 170 

 Multiplication and growth, 173 

 Muscle, contractility of, 160 

 Muscular fibre, examination of, 122 

 ,, fibres of villi, 132 

 ,, structure of heart and tongue, 



Naphtha and creosote fluid, 56 

 Natural and artificial injections, 87 

 Naturalist's dredge, 149 

 Needles in handles, 45 

 Nerve, examination of, 127 



,, fibres, solution of chloride of 



gold for staining, 113 

 g an gli a > examination of, 146 

 Neutral tint glass reflector, 27 

 Newt's kidney, examination of, 141 

 NEYT, M., his method of illumination 



for photographing microscopic objects, 



250 



NICHOL'S prism, 18 

 Nitella, circulation in the cells of, 165 

 Nitrate of silver, staining solutions, 112 

 Nitric acid, 202 

 NOBERT, M., his test lines for definition 



of the magnifying power of object 



glasses, 36 

 Nuclei, 317 

 Nutrition of the cell, 320 



Object-glasses, 5 



,, ,, angle of aperture, 36 



,, ,, ascertaining magnifying 



power of, 37 



,, ,, Mr. Wales's improvements 



in, 6 



,, ,, fiftieth and twenty-fifth, 



285 



., ,, penetrating power of, 7 



,, ,, their own illuminators, 21 



Objects, delineation of, 26 



,, examining by different modes of 

 illumination, 25 



,, microscopical, simple method of 

 measuring, 37 

 Observation, drawing inferences from, 188 



,, errors of, 192 



Observations, of making, upon specimens 



in the microscope, 187 

 Octagonal and square cases for holding 

 and fixing several demonstrating micro- 

 scopes, 1 6 



Oil, examining specimens in, 76 

 ,, globules, microscopical appearances, 

 70 



Opaque injections, 88 



Operation of injection, 98 



OSBORNE, REV. LORD S. G., process uf 



staining followed by, 108 

 Osmic acid, solution of, 1 1 3. 



Pancreas, examination of, 137 

 Paper, black, for placing behind trans- 

 parent objects, 21 

 ,, cells made of, 60 

 ,, tracing and retracing, 20, 

 Paraffine lamps, 20 



Particles of colouring matters, used as 

 injections, the sizes of, 90 



,, of living matter, 312 

 PASTEUR, M., his investigation on 



minute organisms, 282 

 Peculiarities of texture, of representing, 31 

 Pencils, for drawing, 29 

 Penetrating power of object-glasses, 7 

 Perforating thin glass, 63 

 Pewter plate for glass grinding, 61 

 Phosphate of ammonia, testing for, 210 



lime, 210 



Photographing of microscopical objects, 

 229 



,, ,., apparatus 



for, 235 



,, ,, focussing, 



254 



,, ,, ,, illumina- 



tion, 235 



,, ,, Maddox, 



Dr., his camera, and plans of proce- 

 dure for, 241 



arrangements for working without a 



o o 



camera, 244 



?) 

 glasses, 254 



object- 

 Wood- 



ward, Dr., his method of, 237 

 Photographs, of microscopic objects, fix- 

 ing solutions, 274 



,, ,, for magic lan- 



tern, 276 



,, ,, mounting the 



prints, 274 



,, ,, toning solu- 



tions, 273 



,, stereoscopic, 256 



Photography, list of books on, 366 

 Pinning out dissections upon tablets, 79 

 Pipettes, 84 



, , of removing deposits from fluids 

 with, 85 

 Plants, of the circulation in the cells of 



certain, 165 

 Plate glass slides, 46 

 Plexuses of nerves in the cornea, exami- 

 nation of, 128 



Podura scale as a test object, 36 

 Polarised light, 1 8 



,, uses of, 175 



