354 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



MICROSCOPY. 



A. Instruments, Accessories, &c* 



, CI) Stands. 



01d] : Microscope by; Bate. — This Microscope (fig. 55) by Bate, 

 kindly presented to the Society by Mr. Stringer, was exhibited at the 

 February Meeting of the present year. It is apparently a late form of 



Fig. 55. 



Ellis's Aquatic Microscope, described by Adams in his Essays on the 

 irirroscope, published in 1787. 



Adams says, " In the representation of this Microscope the pin D is 

 delineated as passing through a socket at one side (really the back) 

 of the pillar A, whereas it is usual at present to make it pass down a 

 hole bored through the middle of the pillar." 



* This subdivision contains (1) Stands; (2) Eye-pieces and Objectives; (3) Illu- 

 minating and other Apparatus; (4) Photomicrography; (5) Microscopical Optics 

 and Manipulation ; (6) Miscellaneous. 



