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THE PREPAUATION & MOUNTING 



OF 



MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS, 



BY THOMAS DAVIES. 



CHAPTER I. 



Apparatus : Glass slides used for mounting — Tliin (ilass Covers — How to clean 

 them — Cutting thin glass — Wooden slides for opaque objects — Shadbolt's Turn- 

 table for making thin cells — Camel's-hair Pencils — Needles— Knives— Scissors — 

 Glass Tubes— Forceps — Watch-glasses— Lamps — Various Cements — Canada Bal- 

 sam — Asphaltum — Marine Glue — Gold Size — Liquid Glue — Black Japan— Electrical 

 Cement — Gum- water — Sealing-wax Varnishes — Black Varnish. 



CHAPTER IL 



Mounting objects "dry" : Various processes, ftc, in making thin cells, and 

 securing the thin glass covers — The collecting of Diatoms, and their preservation, 

 cleansing, and mounting — Foraminifera : Methods of obtaining them, with 

 instructions for cleanmg and mounting — Plants, leaves, hairs, scales, cuticle, 

 pollens, and seeds of, mounted dry as opaque objects — Corallines — Scales of Insects 

 — Blood Corpuscles — Ferns and Fungi, spores of — Rbaphides or plant crystals — 

 Scales and spines of fish — Insects. 



CHAPTER III. 



Mounting in Canada Balsam — Air-bubbles, how to get rid of— Soaking in Tur- 

 pentine — Hot-air Bath — Chloroform — Air-pump — How to preserve Zoophytes 

 with their tentacles extended — Spicula of Sponges — Preparing and mounting- 

 whole Insects — Eyes — Antennae and feet of Insects— Organs of respiration — 

 Parasitic Insects, Mites, Ticks, &c. — Crystals — Preparation and mounting of 

 various objects for polarized light. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Preservative Liquids, &c. : Distilled Water— Glycerine — Deane's Compound — 

 Glycerine Jelly— Goadby's Fluid— Thwaites's Liquid — Chloride of Zinc Solution- 

 Carbolic Acid— Castor Oil — Various kinds of cells used for objects mounted in 

 fluid, with the methods used for attaching them to the sUdes, and cementing the 

 thin covers. 



CHAPTER V. 



Sections, and how to cut them, with some remarks on dissection — Cutting and 

 polishing sections of shells— Echinodermata— Corals— Coal, Flmt, Teeth, Bone, 

 Horn, and other hard tissues— Cutting Machine for making thm sections of wood, 

 hair, &c. — Valentine's knife for making sections of soft substances — Instruments 

 used in dissection; how to use them — Vegetable and animal tissues— Muscle — 

 Nerve Tissue— Trachea of Insects— Tongues or palates of Molluscs. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Injection Syringes— Stopcock— Curved Needles — BuU-nosed Forceps — Various 

 kinds of coloured injections, their composition, <&c. — A description of the process 

 of injection— The best manner of making treuisparent injections — The best method 

 of mounting injected objects. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Miscellaneous : Apparatus for \'iewing the circulation of the blood in the foot 

 of the Frog— Tongue of Frog- Tadpoles, Fishes, Insects, &c.— Curculation of sap 

 in plants— Valhsneria—Anacharis—Alsinastrum — Chara vulgaris— Nitellte, &c. — 

 Unfolding of the spiral fibres in the seeds of plants— Fructification of Fern Fronds 

 —Spores of Equisetacese— Microscopic Photographs. 



LONDON: KOBERT HAEDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. 



