CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPHIC APPLIANCES 19 



advise every one about purchasing a camera 

 for use in photo -micrography to provide 

 himself with one specially intended for and 

 adapted to that purpose. If for any reason 

 this is not feasible and he is obliged to employ 

 some other, let him make the best of the situ- 

 ation and adapt the box he may happen to 

 have to the end in view, in the best manner 

 he can contrive. A simple example of such 

 an adaptation must suffice at this time. 



Having a small camera with bellows exten- 

 sion of about ten inches and a student's micro- 

 scope stand with joint for inclination of body, 

 I desired to so adjust them quickly and 

 cheaply as to render them suitable for practi- 

 cal work. It would have been very easy to 

 place each upon the table. top, with a book 

 beneath the camera of proper thickness to 

 raise its center to the level of microscope 

 eyepiece, and, by the exercise of great care, 

 perchance secure a good negative with no 

 further expenditure of time. But the whole 

 affair would be so liable to disarrangement by 

 the slightest inadvertent touch that it was not 

 worth thinking about. A board some four 

 feet in length by nine inches wide was there- 

 fore obtained and placed upon the table top. 

 To one end of this the camera was firmly 



