THE MICROSCOPE. 5 



are much less clear than when looked at by a lens 

 magnifying much less. Another advantage of the 



Fig. 1 * 

 Compound Microscope. 



Compound Microscope is the distance at which the 

 eye is placed from the object, and the facility with 



* In this little work we have purposely abstained from 

 mentioning either the names or the Microscopes of our 

 principal makers, lest we should thereby seem to give a 



