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NATURALISTS' ASSISTANT. 



Acid acetic. 



" carbolic. 



" chromic. 



" formic, 



' hydrochloric. 



' lactic. 



" nitric. 



" osmic. 



" picric. 



" sulphuric. 

 Nitrate of silver. 

 Extract of logwood. 

 Alnm. 



Picrocarminate of ammonia. 

 Canada balsam. 

 Dammar varnish. 

 Ring varnish. 

 Glycerine jelly. 

 Marine glue. 

 Chloroform. 

 Neutral salt solution. 

 Asphalt. 



Brunswick black. 

 Bichromate of potash. 

 Wickerscheimer's solution. 

 Lampblack. 

 Caustic soda. 

 Benzole. 

 Magenta. 



Morphia sulphate. 



Curare. 



Arsenic. 



Corrosive sublimate. 



Glycerine. 



Carmine. 



Eosin. 



Vermilion. 



Haematoxylin. 



Creosote. 



Prussian blue. 



Kleinen berg's haematoxylin. 



Benzole balsam. 



Dammar lac. 



Bell's cement. 



Gelatine. 



Miiller's fluid. 



Salt. 



Chloride of gold. 



Paraffine. 



Borax. 



Acid nitrate of mercury. 



Aniline green. 



Iodine. 



Turpentine. 



Indigo. 



Oil of Bergamot. 



Oil of cloves. 



Each student should provide himself -with the most useful 

 of instruments and reagents in the foregoing list, while those 

 which are but rarely used might be furnished by the labo- 

 ratory. 



The uses of most of the various instruments, etc., in the 

 foregoing list will be described under the various heads which 

 follow, while the way in which many of the reagents are made 



