1895.] 



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Dr. Shufeldt's Improvised Apparatus for Making Micro- 

 Photographs. — I took my largest camera and placed it on a 

 long table as shown in the sketch, I removed its lens and lens- 

 boards, and fitted a cardboard front to take its place. Next I 

 took my largest microscope — a Beck's Monocular National — 

 and brought it into the horizontal position. I fitted the upper 

 end of its body, while in this position, into the cardboard front 



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of the camera. A substage condenser, and a three-fourth inch 

 objective were next attached to the microscope, and the camera 

 and the latter coupled together. Now most micro-i)hotographers 

 omit using the eye-piece of the microscope, but with it I sub- 

 sequently obtained the best results. It is inserted after the 

 barrel or body of the microscope is run through the cardboard 

 into the front part of the camera-box. 



For an illuminator I used the dark-lantern of my photo- 

 graphic outfit — simply withdrawing the ruby-glass slide in 

 front, and fitting in its place a thick piece of cardboard, into 

 the center of which I inserted the lens from a small camera to 

 act as a "bull's-eye condenser." This is coupled with the sub- 

 stage condenser on the microscope by means of a broad rubber 

 band. My lantern I held nicely in the proper position by sus- 

 pending it between the "rings" of a chemical standard, as shown 

 in my sketch ; but any simple device will hold your lantern up 



