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Smith's merits have just been recognised in his appointment to the chair 

 of Natural History in Queen's College, Cork, where enlarged opportunities 

 of research will be afforded him in a field where he has already shown 

 himself so able and philosophical an explorer. 



PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE. By John 

 Quekett. 12 Plates, and 270 Woodcuts. Second Edition. 8vo. 

 London: H. Baillere. 1852. Price 22s. 



MICROGRAPHIA ; containing Practical Essays on Reflecting, Solar, and 

 Oxy-hydrogen Gas Microscopes, Micrometers, Eye-pieces, &c., &c. By 

 C. R. Goring, M.D., and Andrew Pritchard, M.RJ.A. 8vo. London. 

 1837. Price 7s. 6d. 



THE MICROSCOPE, ITS HISTORY, CONSTRUCTION, AND APPLICATION. By 

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 Co. 1854. Price 7s. 6d. 



MICROGRAPHIC DICTIONARY. By J. W. Griffith, M.D., F.L.S., &c., and 

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 cuts. 8vo. London: J. Van Voorst. To be completed in Twelve 

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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. Edited by Edwin 

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 1853; Vol. II., 1854. Plates and Woodcuts. 8vo. London: S. 

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THE MICROSCOPE, AND ITS APPLICATION TO CLINICAL MEDICINE. By 

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THE MICROSCOPE, AND ITS APPLICATION TO VEGETABLE ANATOMY AND 

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WITHIN the last century so rapid have been the advances made in the 

 science of observation, as to render it extremely difficult to trace the various 

 stages of its progress. In a great measure this, more especially in later 

 years, may be accounted for by the systematic mode in which observations 

 have been carried on, as well as the great improvement which has taken place 

 in those accessory instruments which the student has summoned to his aid. 

 Among these, none now can vie with the microscope. Alternately frowned 

 upon and petted, its claims have now been universally recognised as the 

 indispensable companion of every true naturalist. Nor does its influence 

 rest here ; the physician seeks by its aid to penetrate the hidden fountains 

 of disease, of whose outward manifestations alone he would otherwise be 



