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veins, the channels bringing in and taking away the 

 product of the cells, then more cells, more activity. 

 The journey half done, you would pass the midrib 

 like a wire rope built up of numerous channels with 

 a constant flow up and down to supply the veins that 

 feed the cells. Your journey of 1/&" is half done. The 

 same view on the rest of the trip except the cells are 

 getting smaller as you near the edge. A trip of that 

 sort, seeing thousands of cells, twenty to seventy or 

 more chlorophyll grains and a nucleus in each, all 

 in constant movement, is a revelation of plant life. 

 You also see, slightly out of focus, layers of cells, two 

 to six of them, in lower levels. The focus limits only 

 show one layer clearly, although they are only M.SOO 

 of an inch apart. 



A trip of this sort is impossible without the proper 

 equipment. Perhaps I am the only one who has been 

 able to take others on this quite wonderful and 

 thrilling little journey of microscopic observation. 

 My eye had the privilege of first watching for eight 

 minutes while 2,240 pictures in 140 feet of film were 

 being exposed, and now thousands can view with 

 me, enlarged on a big screen, and in a minute and a 

 half, this journey of i/g of an inch. 



Your path across the leaf seeing thousands of cells 

 was perhaps as wide as the point of a pin. Estimate, 

 if you can, the cells in a leaf, each one more com- 



