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common to meet with a sneer on the bare 
mention of the microscope. It was, 
therefore, natural that the Author and his 
colleague (the late Dr. Goring), should 
meet with little encouragement from such 
men. ‘They persevered, however, and 
placed the microscope in as respectable a 
position as the telescope, before the ob- 
servers and artists of the present day 
entered this field; it is also probable no 
small share of the vast benefits since 
derived by the aid of the microscope in 
the investigation of the Animal and 
Vegetable Kingdoms is due to the Micro- 
scopic Illustrations and Cabinet, if con- 
sidered merely as pioneers. Now the 
public has taken up this subject, and it 
has become fashionable, there is no lack 
of labourers. | 
The following paragraphs from the 
preface of the Microscopic Cabinet, will 
