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SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Minot Automatic Precision Microtome.* — This microtome is adapted 

 for paraffin and celloidin preparations. Its present form (fig. 125) em- 

 bodies several important improvements. The feeding arrangement and 



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object-carriage arc on a massive and solid base, above this being the knife- 

 frame. The knife-clamps are adjustable in four grooves in the sides of 

 the frame, so that the knife, which is 315 mm. long, may be set at any 



* Bausch and Lomb's Cat. B, lGtb ed., pp. 10, 11 ; and also Journ. App. Micro- 

 scopy, iv. (1901) pp. 131S-20. Cf. this Journal, 1899, p. 104. 



