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A NEW WORK ON MICROSCOPY. 



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 Practical Microscopy : Ax Introduction to Microscopical 

 Methods. ByF. Shillington Scales, M.A., B.Ch. (Cantab.), 

 Curator R.M.S. 4J x 7 in., 334 pages, with 122 figures 

 in the text. London, 1909. Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox. 

 5s. net. 



Three years ago we had the pleasure of reviewing in this 

 Journal a work entitled Elementary Microscopy, which we 

 unhesitatingly recommended to the beginner. We quite expected, 

 at the time, that a second edition would be called for at no very 

 distant date ; but we must admit that we are genuinely surprised 

 at the form which it has taken, for with its new title and greatly 

 augmented contents it is hardly recognisable. 



Candidly, we do not consider this a book which ought to "find 

 a place on the bookshelves " of the up-to-date microscopist. Its 

 proper situation is on his working-table, or in his pocket — any- 

 where, in fact, where it will be the first thing to attract his 

 attention when on the look-out for information concerning his 

 work. 



The author is obviously in deadly earnest in his very success- 

 ful endeavours to impart information. The chapter on micro- 

 scopical technique might perhaps be calculated to frighten the 

 beginner, as it is replete with laboratory methods of fixing, 

 staining, and section-cutting, both at the beginning and at the 

 end. He will find, however, secreted somewhere near the middle 

 all that he is likely to want to know about the simpler methods 



of mount ins:. 



The chapter dealing with the practical optics of the microscope 

 is a masterly and eminently successful attempt to lucidly explain 

 a number of problems with which the student is confronted. 



