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LABELING AND CATALOGING. 



[CH. VII. 



are made of sufficient 

 quently used in niouu 

 desired. 



96 



o 



J'o.96 /&so 



Jr^roe. ft ten 

 y Caf 



70 



Fig. 140. 



width to receive two slides, then the double slides so fre- 

 ting serial sections may be put into the cabinet in any place 



Fig. 140. — A — .Part of a cabinet drawer seen 

 from above. In compartment No. g6 is repre- 

 sented a slide lying fat. The label of the 

 slide and the number of the compartment are 

 so placed that the number of the compartment 

 may be seen through the slide. The sealing 

 cement is removed at one place to show that in 

 sealing the cover-glass, the cemetit is put 

 partly on the cover and partly on the slide. 

 (J 229, 234). 



/>'. — This represents a section of the same 

 part of the drawer, (a) Slide resting as in 

 A. No. 96 The preparation is seen to be 

 above a groove in the floor of the compart- 

 ment, (b) One end of the slide is seen to be 

 uplifted by depressing the other into the bevel. 



(4). The drawers of the cabinet should be 

 entirely independent, so that any drawer may 

 be partly or wholly removed without disturb- 

 ing any of the others. 



(5). On the front of each drawer should be 

 the number of the drawer in Roman numer- 

 als, and the number of the first and last com- 

 partment in the drawer in Arabic numerals. 

 (Fig. 141). 



Fig. 141. — Cabinet for Mi- 

 croscopical Specimens, show- 

 ing the method of arrange- 

 ment and of numbering the 

 drazvers and indicating the 

 number of the first and last 

 compartment in each drawer. 

 It is better to have the slides 

 on which the drawers rest 

 somezvhat shorter, then the 

 drawer front may be entire 

 and not notched as here 

 shown. (From Proc. Amer. 

 Micr. Soc. 18S3). 



