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INDEX. 



BIRDS, bone of, 587 ; feathers of, 597, 598 ; 



blood of, 599, 600 ; lungs of, 624-626. 

 Bird's-head processes of Poly/oa, 498, 499. 

 Black-Japan varnish, 219. 

 Black-Ground Illuminators, 138-140, 174, 



175. 



Blenny, viviparous, scales of, 591. 

 Blood-Disks of Vertebrata, 183, 598-601 ; 



mode of examining and preserving, 601, 



602 ; circulation of, mode of examining, 



616-619, 691. 

 Bloodvessels, injected preparations of, 



619-623; disposition of, in different parts, 



623-626 ; morbid, 666. 

 Bone, structure of, 183, 584-587 ; mode of 



making sections of, 207-211, 587. 

 Bones, fossil, examination of, 207-643. 

 Botrytis bassiana, 336. 

 Botryllians, 502. 

 Bowerbankia, 50, 496, 500. 

 Brachionus, 427, 429, 434. 

 Brachiopoda, structure of shell of, 513-515. 

 Branchiopoda, 542-545. 

 Branchipus, 545. 



Brooke, Mr., his Object-glass holder, 127. 

 Brunswick-black, use of, 218. 

 Buccinum, tongue of, 521 ; egg-capsules 



of, 522 ; development of, 523. 

 Bugs and their allies, 648 ; wings of, 676. 

 Busula avicularia, 498, 499. 

 BuTPs-Eye Condenser, 143 ; use of, 178. 

 Busk, Mr. G., on Volvox, 260, 265. 

 Butterflies, see Lepidoptera. 



Cabinets for microscopic objects, 243. 



Cactus, raphides of, 371. 



Calycajithus, stem of, 385. 



Camera Lucida, 125, 126 ; use of, in Mi- 

 crometry, 126. 



CampanularidcB, 463-465. 



Cgmpylodiscus, 292. 



Canada balsam, use of, as cement, 208, 209, 

 219, 220 ; mounting of objects in, 224-232. 



Canal-system of Foraminifera, 446, 447. 



Canaliculi of bone, 585-587. 



Cancer cells, 675. 



Capillaries, circulation in, 616-619 ; injec- 

 tion of, 619-622; distribution of, 623-626. 



Carp, scales of, 592. 



Cartilage, structure of, 608,609. 



Cells for mounting objects, of cement, 235; 

 of thin glass, 236 ; of plate-glass, 237 ; 

 shallow, 237 ; deep and built up, 238-240 ; 

 mounting objects in, 240-242. 



Cells, Animal, nature of, 404, 405. 



Cells, Vegetable, 42 ; nature of, 249 ; 

 rotation in, 363-367 ; thickening deposits 

 in, 367, 368 ; spiral deposits in, 369 ; 

 starch-grains in, 370, 371 ; raphides in, 371 . 



Cellular Tissue, ordinary form of, 360-362; 

 stellate, 362 ; cubical, 363 ; dimensions 

 of, 363 ; component cells of, 363. 



Cement-Cells, mode of making, 235, 236. 



Cementum of Teeth, 589-591. 



CEPHALOPODS, shell of, 516, 517 ; chromato- 

 phores of, 528. 



Ceramiacece, 331. 



Chatophoracea, 321, 322. 



Chalk, Foraminifera, &c., of, 631-633. 



Characece, 322, 323; rotation of fluid in, 47, 



324; multiplication of, by zoospores, 324; 



sexual apparatus of, 325, 326. 

 Cherry-stone, cells of, 368. 

 Chemical Reagents, use of, in Microscopic 



research, 211-213. 

 Chilodon, teeth of, 415 ; self-division of, 



418. 



Chirodota, calcareous skeleton of, 486. 

 Chloride of Calcium, as mounting medium, 



233. 



Choroid, pigment of, 605. 

 Chromatic Aberration, 71,72; means of re 



ducing and correcting, 73, 74. 

 Chromatophores of Cephalopods, 527. 

 Cidaris, spines of, 481. 

 Ciliary action, nature of, 424, 425 ; on gills 



of Mollusks, 527. 

 Ciliated epithelium, 606, 607. 

 Circulation of Blood in Vertebrata, 616- 



619; in Insects, 569, 570; alternating, in 



Tunicata, 504, 505. 



Cirrhipeds, metamorphoses of, 548-550. 

 Clavellinidce, 503. 

 Clarke, Mr. J. L., his mode of preparing 



sections of Spinal Cord, 616. 

 Cleanliness, importance of, to Microscope, 



158-160 ; in mounting objects, 242. 

 Closterium, movement of fluid in, 267,268; 



duplicative subdivision of, 268,269; mul- 

 tiplication of, by gonidia, 275 ; conjuga- 

 tion of, 274. 



Clypeaster, spines of, 481. 

 Coal, nature of, 627-629. 

 Coarse-adjustment, 86-88; uses of, 162,163. 

 Cockchafer, cellular integument of, 556 ; 



eyes of, 562 ; antenna of, 565 ; spiracle of 



larva of, 572. 



Cockle of v/heat, 531, 532. 

 Coddington lens, 80. 

 Cohn, Dr., his account of various states of 



Protococcus, 253-259 ; his researches on 



Infusoria, 425, note; on reproduction of 



Rotifera, 430, 431. 

 Coleoptera, mouth of, 565-567. 

 Collection of objects, general directions for, 



243-245. 



Collomia, spiral fibres of, 368-370. 

 Colostrum, 683. 

 Columella of Mosses, 351. 

 Comatula, metamorphosis of, 490. 

 Compound Microscope, principle of, 81-85; 



various forms of, 96-117. 

 Compressorium, 150-152; use of, 168. 

 Concave lenses, refraction by, 69. 

 Conceptacles of Marchantia, 345, 346. 

 Condenser, Achromatic, 131-133, 136 ; use 



of, 172, 173. 

 Annular, 139. 



for Opaque Objects, ordinary, 

 144; bull's-eye, 144; mode 

 of using, 177-179. 

 Confervacece, 317; self-division of, 318; 



zoospores of, 318; sexual reproduction of, 



318, 319. 



Coniferce, peculiar woody fibre of, 37?; ab- 

 sence of ducts in, 375,382; fossil, 382, 



628, 629. 

 Conjugation of Palmoglffia, 252; of Des- 



midfaeeffi, 274-276 ; of Diatomaceae, 284- 



286 ; of Conjugateae, 319, 320 ; (supposed) 



of Actinophrys, 408. 



