THE MICROSCOPE. 



DKCKTvIBKR, 1894:. 



Number 24. New Series. 



A Microscope for Children. 



By chrysanthemum. 



WITH FKONTISPIECE. 



There is no good reason why boys and girls should 

 not early commence the use of a microscope and derive 

 great pleasure and instruction therefrom. We shall be 

 glad to help interest young people in the beauties which 

 are just beyond their sight, to create a love for natural 

 science, teach them carefulness and observation and 

 thereby furnish instructive enjoyment for many leisure 

 hours. They can examine common objects, such as the 

 house fly, the butterfly, the ant, spider, honey bee, gar- 

 den and flower seeds, pollen grains, etc. We can tell 

 them the best ways of seeing things, the most interest- 

 ing parts to study and also give curious or instructive 

 facts concerning them. We shall next year give some 

 illustrations of the objects to be studied and point out 

 the different parts so that the beginners may know just 

 what to see, and how to show their friends some very in- 

 teresting things. Subscribers have the privilege of send- 

 ing in objects or may describe to us what they have 

 found of interest. For this work any simple microscope 

 or low power compound microscope may be used. There 

 is a convenient little dissecting microscope, which will 

 always be of use even if one has a larger instrument, 

 and which we shall describe. It is shown in the fron- 

 tispiece. We shall give some directions for seeing the 

 objects that can be studied with this instrument, so that 



