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TRENTON, N. J., JANUARY, 1892. 



No. 1. 



ORIGINAL 

 C^AnVNICATloriS 



THE ESOTERIC BEAUTY AND UTILITY OF THE 



MICROSCOPE.* 



EPHRATM CUTTER, LL. D., M. D. 

 I. 



INTRODUCTION.— Three things prompt the writing of this 

 paper : 



1. It IS the tri-centennial of the microscope. 



2. It has been stated that not much has been done with the 

 microscope in America, 1891. 



3. At a meeting of the Presbyterian Clergj^ of New York, a 

 few years ago, a divine repeatedly alluded to the " accursed 

 microscope." 



Now the writer feels that he owes a debt of gratitude to the 

 Dutch for inventing the microscope — that America has done 

 and is doing something with the microscope of great practical 

 value, and that things of beauty and utility should not be called 

 accursed. Hence he begs to testify what he knows in his own 



■^Copyrighted 1892 by Ephr^im Cutter. All rights reserved. 

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