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that, when practicable, it is a good thing to mount each 
object by two or more different methods, as very frequently 
one feature is best shown dry, another in liquid, and a third 
in balsam. Secondly, let no failures discourage you in 
following up what will assuredly one day become a source of 
great pleasure, and render your daily constitutional walk, 
which is often dull in the extreme, very delightful, as it will 
afford you some new wonder in every hedge-row. And, 
lastly, let the mounting be studied thoroughly, scarcely any 
part of microscopie science being more worthy of thought 
than this, since it will so far contribute to the enjoyment 
or instruction of others, as to preserve for their examination, 
objects which have already ministered to your own, but 
which may yet be so perishable as to be speedily lost unless 
some one of the many processes described in this manual be 
employed for their preservation, 
