L H ' 



THE MICROTOMIST'S 

 VADE-MECUM 



(BOLLES LEE) 



A HANDBOOK OF THE METHODS OF ANIMAL 

 AND PLANT MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY 



TENTH EDITION 

 EDITED BY 



J. BRONTE GATENBY 



M.A., Ph.D.fDubl.), B.A., B.Sc, D.Phil. (Oxon.), D.Sc.(Lond.), Professor of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin, 



AND 



THEOPHILUS S. PAINTER 



A.B.(Roanoke), A.M., Ph.D. (Yale), Professor of Zoology, Texas University, U.S.A. 



With the Collaboration of 



D. G. CATCHESiDE, D.Sc.ihond.), Lecturer in Botany, London Unirersit!/, 



Assistant in Botany Department, King's College, London, 



HAROLD J. CONN, Ph.B.(Wesleyan University, Conn.), Ph.D. (Cornell), 



Director of Research, N.Y. Agricultural Station, Genera, N.X ., 

 Cfuiirman, American Commission on Standardisation of Stai7is, 



E. S. DUTHIE, M.Sc, M.B., Ph.D.(Dubl.), Assistant Pathologist, Sheffield 



Royal Hospital, 



HELEN PIXELL-GOODRIGH, M.A.(Oxon.), D.Sc.(Lond.), Department 

 of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Oxford, 



J. G. GREENFIELD, B.Sc.(Edin.), M.D.(Lond.), F.R.C.P., Pathologist, 

 National Hospital, Qufen Square, London, 



W. W. KAY, M.Sc, M.B.(Manch.), Lecturer in Chemical Pathology, Manchester 



University, 



REGINALD LUDFORD, Ph.D., D.Sc.(Lond.), Imperial Cancer Research 



Fund lAiboratory, Lomlon, 



K. G. RICHARDSON, M.Sc.{Sydney), Lecturer in Histology, Department of 

 Anatomy, University College, Lorulon, 



RUBY O. STERN, M.D.(Lond.), National Hospital, London, St. Andrew's 



Hospital, Northampton, 



RAYMOND WHITEHEAD, M.Sc, M.D.(Manch.), Lecturer in Pathology, 



Manchester University. 



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