The Microscope 



AND ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Pharmacy. 



Tol. 1. Ann Arbor, FebmaiT, 1882. No. 6. 



CONTENTS. 



PACE. 



Original Communications. 

 Hints on Mounting. By W. H. 



Walmsley i6i 



Laboratory Notes. By C. H. Stowell 173 



Editorial Department. 

 American Society of Microscopists . . 175 



Prospectus for Vol. II 177 



Editorial Briefs 179-180 



PAGE 



Selections. 

 Root of Apocynum Cannabinum and 



Androsaemifolium i3i 



A Study of Blood 187 



Society Proceedings 194 



Reviews 196 



Index for Vol. 1 198 



#ri ^hxnl ^muinrnxUntimis. 



SOME HINTS ON THE PREPARATION AND MOUNTING 

 OF MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS. 



BY W. H. WALMSLEY, 



SECOND PAPER. 



OUR first paper of practical hints having been mainly devoted to 

 balsam mountings, it was the writer's intention in the next, (if 

 ever written,) to give other methods. But on carefully reviewing 

 the former I find that directions have been given for mounting only 

 very thin or flattened substances, with which but a small amount of 

 balsam is needed between the slide and cover, and the latter lies 

 parallel to the former, with but little inclination to tilt up on one 

 side. There are, however, many objects, so thick as to require some 

 sort of a cell to contain the large amount of balsam, necessary to 



