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the celloidin. In this way I have saved thousands of slides that would 

 otherwise have been lost. Small structures, such as spores, starch-grains, 

 and the like, are readily retained in the sections. 



Recently in mounting some epidermis of tulip for the study of 

 stomata, I noticed that many of the nuclei of the epidermal cells were 

 dividing amitotically. Many stages could be observed in a single field of 

 view. I do not know how commonly this may be found in tulip epidermis, 

 but the material described is the best I have seen for the demonstration 

 of amitasis. 



