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Modern Microscopy 



objects viewed that is almost startling in its beautiful effect. 

 Subjects stand out in relief, exhibiting their natural con- 

 tour, and at once the worker is able to decide the shape 

 and form of an object in a way that it is impossible to do 

 by focusing through the several planes with a monocular 



FIG. 8. A POPULAR BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE. 

 The Nelson model by C. Baker. 



instrument. The binocular microscope is par excellence 

 the instrument for the amateur. To him the beautiful 

 appeals in a manner that it perforce cannot do to the 

 scientific man, who, being intent on the pursuit of know- 

 ledge of some obscure point, has no time to notice, or if 



