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The Microscope. 



pleasure to the young than the exhibition of whole 

 flowers (small ones, of course,) with the lowest power 

 of the microscope. Some little weeds rise to the 

 apparent splendour and importance of hot-house 

 plants ; almost any weed, blossom, or grass is worth 

 looking at, and sure to delight the younger ones of a 

 family, while it suggests to them how well worthy of 

 examination are the common things by which they 

 are surrounded ; a thought which may prove of great 

 value to them at a future day. 



No. 7. Additional Object-glass for viewing Flowers. 



I found the lowest power of my microscope still 

 too powerful to show as large a field as I desired, and 

 I therefore made a (somewhat indifferent) extra object- 

 glass., to magnify about twelve diameters, by simply cut- 



