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Fig. 6. Cabinet for Microscopes. 



great help for beginners to have some 

 kind of a guide in mounting. Fig. 7 

 shows such a device. 



Fig. 7. 



A convenient label is shown in Fig. 8. 

 As illustrated in the filled out label the 

 thickness both of the cover-glass and 





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Fig. 8. 



of the section is indicated. The thick- 

 ness of the cover is in hundredths of a 

 millimeter, that of the sections in 

 microns (//). 



As it is desirable to have every stu- 

 dent independent each should be given, 

 if possible, an individual locker for his 

 specimens and material. The lockers 

 available in the histological laboratory 

 at Cornell are shown in Fig. 9. For each 

 there are several reagent boards with 

 holes of various sizes and a drawer. 

 Some of the reagent boards have holes 

 about 25 mm. in diameter for the prepar- 

 ation vials shown in Fig. 12, and they 

 also serve very well indeed for storing 

 paraffin imbedded tissues. 



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a 



Fig. 10. 



For parafl^n ribbons and for temporary 

 mounts or for working series the rather 

 expensive slide drawers (Fig. 10 A) and 



