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POPULAR GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE MICROSCOPE 



AS A MF. \ N'S OF 



AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. 

 BY E. LANKESTEK, M. D., F.E.S. 



"With. Drawings of 240 Objects from Nature. 

 BY TUFFEN WEST. 



Second Edition. 



CONTENTS : Half an Hour on the Structure Half an Hour in 

 the Garden Half an Hour in the Country Half an Hour in Fresh 

 Water Half an Hour at the Seaside Half an Hour Indoors 

 Appendix : the Preparation and Mounting of Objects. 



" ' HALF-HOTJRS WITH THE MICBOSCOPB, &c.' Here is a little volume, but 

 it is illustrated by engravings of 240 natural objects, as seen when subjected to 

 the Microscope. This wonderful anatomy of sight divides clearly one blood 

 corpuscle from another ; marks distinctions from the blood of a fowl and that 

 of a frog; separates the filaments of the finest plants; delineates the beaded 

 hair of the sow-thistle ; makes a picture of vine or potato blight ; pries into 

 the pollen cells of the passion-flower; and searches the warm depths of the 

 poppy. Then it dignifies into isolation the minutest hair on the ear of a mouse, 

 the mouth of a flea, the fang of a spider, the eye of a fly, the smallest particle 

 that goes to make up a drift of awandown. This magic gallery, through which 

 the glance of amateur science will range delighted, is distributed into several 

 compartments, otherwise chapters, in which the author discourses learnedly 

 enough to cram a lecturer, but so simply, that he might instruct a child, on the 

 structure of the Microscope ; on its application in the garden ; on what may be 

 seen with its aid in the country ; on the world of life and beauty it opens up in 

 fresh water ; on its powers at the seaside, or its witchery on the parlour table. 

 The drawings are successively noti.'td, and every explanation is afforded that is 

 necessary to the conversion of a youth or maid into a proficient microscopist. 

 Manuals of elementary science are seldom so well adapted to please no less 

 than to teach. The compiler of the volume has this conspicuous merit : that 

 ho deals with wonders, and never exaggerates them." Athenceum. 



" At a time when microscopic investigation has become so general, whether 

 as a study or a hobby, the beautiful little volume before us cannot be otherwise 

 than welcome. It is, in fact, a very complete manual for the amateur micro- 

 scopist The 'Half-hours' are filled with clever and agreeable descrip- 

 tions, whilst the plates, executed with the most beautiful minuteness and 

 sharpness, exhibit no less than 210 objects, with the utmost attainable dis- 

 tinctness." Critic. 



" It is an elegant little book, and has no less than 240 illustrations by Mr. 

 Tuflen West, whose very high standing as a man of science and a microscopic 

 delineator, are such as to insure that correctness which is of so much import- 

 ance in natural history illustrations. As a scientific book, it is the cheapest 

 half-crown's worth ever published." Liverpool Courier. 



LONDON : ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. 



