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But, besides the class of objects which may happen to 

 be especially interesting to you, you will also like to 

 have a tolerable variety of miscellaneous things ; and 

 the collection of these will give interest to many a 

 country ramble. In summer, especially, both land 

 and water abound in wonders for the microscope , you 

 will soon almost instinctively secure the minute lichen, 

 the delicate frond of fern, the floating thistle-down, 

 with a view to its subsequent inspection ; and every 

 pond will yield a rich supply both from the animal 

 and vegetable world. 



No. 3 represents a group of implements suitable 

 to a fisher for the microscope. Observe the little wide- 

 mouthed bottle to carry your treasures, the long 

 stick, to which a muslin net, a spoon, or a small cut- 

 ting hook can be screwed the latter being intended 

 for obtaining pieces of water- weed, to which several 

 microscopic plants and animals will be found adhering, 

 and a live-box, which, with the Coddington lens, will 

 be useful in enabling you to see on the spot what kind 

 of success has attended you. Also the collector will 

 probably ere long set up a box of odds and ends, 

 which may come in usefully. It will look somewhat 

 like the collection of things which the skilful fly-fisher 

 gets together ; and a description of it might suggest 

 the contents of the witches' caldron to the reader's 

 memory. For instance, hairs from valuable skins, as 

 those of the tiger, lion, etc., fishes' eyes, remarkable 

 feathers, scraps of eel's and sole's skin, and sundry 

 cast-on 7 entomological specimens, which most collec- 

 tors of insects have to spare. 



