ORDINATION. 



enriched its shelves with many a delicate and exquisite 

 preparation, which perhaps brought out some detail 

 of structure never before understood, while he also 

 helped very largely in the systematic arrangement of 

 its contents. 



About this time, also, he was working very steadily 

 with the microscope, in the use of which he became 

 quite proficient, as evidenced by his " Common Objects 

 of the Microscope," written some years later. For 

 his insect dissections, of course, this instrument was 

 absolutely necessary ; and during these and the few 

 following years he prepared many hundreds of slides, 

 and introduced several improvements of his own into 

 the art of microscopic mounting. 



In spite of all his zoological labours, however, and 

 also of his literary work (for his first book the smaller 

 Natural History was published in 1851), he kept up 

 his reading, and in 1852, having obtained a title for 

 the parish of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the outskirts 

 of Oxford, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Samuel 

 Wilberforce, who was at that time presiding over the 

 diocese of Oxford. 



