INDEX 



137 



Ethyl eosin, 23 



Ethyl ether, as narcotic, 43 



in Petrunkewitsch's fixative, 12 

 Eucalyptol, 37 

 Euparal, 36 



green, 37 

 External form, preservation of, 6 

 Eyes, 1 1 



Farrants' medium, cleaning from mounts, 7 5 



formula for, 35 

 Fast Green FCF, as contrast stain, 23 



in Johansen's stain, 28, 118 

 Fats, handling sections of, 74 

 , section technique for, 71 



stains for, 29 

 Fish fry, 29 

 Fish scales, 40 

 Fixation of, Ameba, 42 

 Amphioxus, 128 

 Annelida, 43 

 Aristolachia, 117 

 Bryozoa, 43 

 chick embryos, 92 

 coelenterata, 43 

 eyes, 1 1 



hard-shelled material, 10 

 liver fluke, 95 

 nervous tissue, 1 1 

 Pectinatella, 85 

 plant tissues, 8 

 Polychaetae, 43 

 Protozoa, 42 

 rat testes, 120 

 smears, 50 

 Fixative, formula for, Allen's, 11 

 Bouin's, 10 



Carnoy and Lebrun's, 10 

 Gates', 9 

 Gilson's, 10 

 Heidenhain's, 9 

 Helly's, 8 

 Kolmer's, 11 

 Lavdowsky's, 8 

 lo Bianco's, 9 

 Navashin's, 9 

 Petrunkewitsch's, 11 

 Zenker's, 8 

 functions of, 6 

 removal of, 12, 110 

 zoological general purpose, 10, 12 

 Flaming bacterial smears, 100 

 Flattening, chick embryo, 90 

 liver fluke, 95 



specimens for wholemounts, 85 

 Flatworms, 20 

 Fleas, 82 

 Flotation method of clearing, 33 



Formaldehyde, contribution to preservation 

 of shape, 7 



in, Allen's fixative, 10 

 Bouin's fixative, 10 

 Heidenhain's fixative, 9 

 Helly's fixative, 8 

 Johansen's safranin, 22 

 Kolmer's fixative, 11 

 McNamara, Murphy and Gore's 



decalcifter, 13 

 Navashin's fixative, 9 



preserving Bryozoa with, 43, 85 

 "Formol-Zenker" {see Heidenhain's fixative) 

 Freehand sections, fixing tissues for, 53 



methods of supporting, 53 



microtome for, 52 



staining and mounting, 53 

 Frog, killing for histological purposes, 110 



larva, staining nuclei in, 21 



section of intestine, 1 10 

 Frozen sections, adhesive for, 74 



cutting without embedding, 73 



embedding tissues before cutting, 73 



flattening, 74 



lacquer for, 74 



method of freezing, 73 



microtome for, 72 



mounting and staining, 74 



purpose of, 7 1 

 Fuchsin, basic {see Magenta) 

 Fungi, parasitic, 29 

 Gilson's fixative, for chick embryo, 92 



for liver fluke, 95 



formula of, 10 

 Glass cells, 41 



Glycerine-alcohol, for storing wax blocks, 60 

 Glycerine in, gum mountants, 35 



Mayer's adhesive, 67 

 Gold size, 41 



Gram positive bacteria, 102 

 Gram's iodine, formula for, 12 



in staining bacteria, 102 

 Gravis' adhesive, 74 



Gray and Wess' mountant, cleaning from 

 wholemounts, 75 



formula for, 35 

 Gray's, double contrast stain, 24 



narcotic, 14 

 Grenacher's alcoholic borax carmine, 

 for invertebrate larvae, 44 



for Pectinatella, 84 



formula of, 19 

 Grinding microtome knives, 62 

 Gum acacia, 35, 36 

 Gum arabic {see Gum acacia) 

 Gum mastic, 74 

 Gum sandarac, 37 



