80 C1IA1TMU VII. 



through chloroform into paraffin in a small glass tube, and after cooling 

 breaks the tube and so obtains a cylinder of paraffin with the objects 

 ready for cutting. 



HOYER (Arch. mil:. Anu.t., liv, 1899, p. 98) perfoims all the operations 

 in a glass cylinder (5 cm. long and 7 mm. wide), open at both ends, but 

 having a piece of moist parchment paper tied over one of the openings. 

 It is then not necessary to break the cylinder; by removing the parch- 

 ment paper the paraffin can be pushed out of it in the shape of a 

 cylinder containing the objects imbedded at one end of it. 



MAYER (Zeit. wits. Mil-r., xxiv, 1907, p. 130) takes the gelatin capsules 

 used by chemists; after cooling in water the gelatin swells and is easily 

 removed. 



MEVES (Arch. milcr. Anat., Ixxx, Abth. ii, 1912, p. 85) employs wedge- 

 shaped capsules made by G. Pohl, Schoirbauin, Bez, Dantzig. 



