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HOW TO USE THE MICROSCOPE. 



\ SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL BOOK, INTENDED FOR BEGINNERS. 



BY JOHN PHIN, 

 Editor of " The American Journal of Microscopy." 



CONDENSED TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE MICROSCOPE. What it Is; What it Does; Different Kinds of Microscopes; 

 I rinciples of its Construct on; Names of the Different Parts. 



SIMPLE MICROSCOPES. Hand Magnifiers; Doublets; Power of Two or More 

 Lenses When U>ed Together; Stanhope Lens; Coddington Lens; Achromatic 

 Doublets and Trip'ets ; Twenty-five Cent Microscopes and How to Make Them ; 

 Penny Microscopes, to Show Eels in Paste and Vinegar. 



DISSECTING MICROSCOPES. Essentials of a Good Dissecting Microscope. 



COMPOUND MICROSCOPES. Cheap Fo eign Siands ; The Ross Model; The Jackson 

 Model; The Continental Model; The New American Model; Cheap American 

 Stands; The Binocular Microscope; The Binocular Eye-piece; The Inverted Micro- 

 scope; Lithological Microscopes; The Aquarium Microscope; Microscopes for 

 Special Purpo es; "Class" Microscopes. 



OBJECTIVES. Defects of Common Lenses; Spherical Aberration: Chromatic do. ; 

 Corrected Objectives; Defining Power ; Achromatism; Aberration r . Form ; Flatness 

 of Field: Angular Aperture; Penetrating Power '. Working Distan ..3; Immiersion and 

 "Homogeneous" Lenses; D plex Fronts; French Triplets, etc., ftc. 



TESTING OBJECTIVES. General Rules; Accepted Standards Diatoms, Ruled 

 Lines, Artificial Star; Podura; Nnbert's Lines; M oiler's Probe Platte, etc., etc. 



SELECTION OF A MICROSCOPE Must be Adapted to Requirements and Skill of 

 User; Microscopes for Botany; For Physicians; For Students. 



ACCESSORY APPARATUS. Stage Forceps; Forceps Carrier; Plain Slides; Concave 

 Slides^; Watch-Glass Holder; Animalcule Cage; Zoophyte Trough ; The Weber Slide; 

 The Cell-Trough; The Compressorium ; Gravity Compressorium ; Growing Slides; 

 Frog Plate; Table ; Double Nose-piece. 



ILLUMINATION. Sun-Light; Artificial Light Candles, Gas, Lamps, etc., etc. 



ILLUMINATION OF OPAQUE OBJECTS. Bulls- Eye Condenser; Side Reflector; The 

 Lieberkuhn; The Parabolic Reflector; Vertical Illuminators. 



ILLUMINATION OF TRANSPARENT OBJECTS. Direct and Reflected Light; Axial or 

 Central Ligb ; Oblique Light; The Achromatic Condenser; The Webster Condenser, 

 and How to Usei* ; Wenham's Reflex Illuminator, and How to Use it; The Wenham 

 Prism; The " Half-Button ; " The Woodward Illuminator; Tulles' Illuminating 

 Traverse Lens; The Spot Lens; The Parabolic Illuminator; Polarized Light. 



How TO USE THE MICROSCOPE General Rules; Hints to Beginners. 



How TO USE OBJECTIVES OF LARGE APERTURE. Collar-Correction, etc. 



CARE OF THE MICROSCOPE. Should be Kept Covered; Care of Objectives: Pre- 

 cautions tr be Used when Corrosive Vapors and Liquids are Employed ; To Protect 

 th Objectives from Vapors which Corrode Glass ; Cleaning the Objectives; Cleaning 

 th Brass Work 



COLLECTING OBTECTS. Where to Find Objects ; What to Look for; How to Capture 

 Them. 



THE PREPARATION AND EXAMINATION OF OBJECTS. Cutting Thin Sections of 

 So r Substances; Valentine's Knife; Sections of Wood and Bone; Improved Section 

 Cutter; Sections of Rock; Knives; Scissors; Needles; Dissecting Pans and Dishes; 

 Dissecting Microscopes; Separation of Deposits from Liquids; Preparing Whole 

 Insects; Feet, Eye>, Tongues, Wings, etc , of Insects; Use of Chemical Tests; Liquids 

 for Moistening Object >; Refractive Powers of D'fferent Liquids; lod-Serum , Artinei r 

 .od-Serum; Covers for Keeping Out Dust; Errors in Microscopic Observations. 



PRESERVATIVE PROCESSES. General Principles ; Preservative Media. 



APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING OBJECTS. Slides; Covers; Cells; Turn-Tables, e'tu. 



CEMENTS AND VARNISHES. General Rules for Using. 



MOUNTING OBJECTS. Mounting Transparent Object Dry; in Balsam; in Liquid* 

 Whole Insects; How to Get Rid of Air-Bubbles; Mounting Opaque Objects. 



FINISHING THE SLIDES. Cabinets: Maltwood Finder; Microscopical Fallacies. 



