CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGK 



I. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF MICROSCOPICAL OPTIC'S . . 1 

 II. THE PRINCIPLES AND THEORY OF VISION WITH THE COM- 

 POUND MICROSCOPE 36 



III. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROSCOPE . . 117 



IV. ACCESSORY APPARATUS 270 



V. OBJECTIVES, EYE-PIECES, THE APERTOMETER .... 353 



VI. PRACTICAL MICROSCOPY : MANIPULATION AND PRESERVATION 



OF THE MICROSCOPE 397 



VII. PREPARATION, MOUNTING. AND COLLECTION OF OBJECTS . . 438 



VIII. MICROSCOPIC FORMS OF VEGETABLE LIFE THALLOPHYTES . 530 



IX. FUNGI 633 



X. MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF THE HIGHER CRYPTOGAMS . 665 



XI. OF THE MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF PHANEROGAMIC PLANTS . 684 



XII. MICROSCOPICAL FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE PROTOZOA . . 726 



XIII. ANIMALCULES INFUSORIA AND ROTIFERA .... 753 



XIV. FORAMINIFERA AND RADIOLARIA 795 



XV. SPONGES AND ZOOPHYTES 855 



XVI. ECHINODERMA .... 884 



XVII. POLY7IOA AND TUNICATA 904 



XVIII. MOLLUSCA AND BRACHIOPODA U19 



XIX. WORMS 943 



XX. CRUSTACEA . . 957 



XXI. INSECTS AND ARACHNID A . ... . . 972 



XXII. VERTEBRATED ANIMALS ........ 1017 



XXIII. APPLICATION OF THE MICROSCOPE TO GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGA- 

 TION ........... 1066 



XXIV. CRYSTALLISATION, POLARISATION, MOLECULAR COALESCENCE . 1094 



INDEX . 1137 



