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button," as it has been called, is connected to the under side 

 of the slide by means of water, glycerine, or oil of cloves, its 

 sides being grasped by a simple kind of open clip attached to 

 the sub-stage. This illuminator is complete in itself, and re- 

 quires no supplementary condensing lens ; the obliquity is 



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simply obtained by swinging the ordinary mirror sideways, 

 and by this means Amphipleura pellucida, mounted in balsam, 

 can be at once resolved. 



The Woodward Illuminator. This method of mount- 

 ing and arranging a right-angled prism for the illumination of 

 balsam-mounted objects, was described by Col. Dr. Woodward 

 in a paper read before the Royal Microscopical Society, June 6, 

 1877. It consists of a prism of glass, the apex of which has 

 been truncated. This prism is cemented to the truncated apex 

 of a similar prism of brass, the long side of the glass prism 

 being upward, and connected Avith the under surface of the 

 object-slide by suitable liquid (glycerine, oil of cloves, etc.) 

 The homologous side of the brass prism is downwards, and 

 slides in a holder which is supported by the sub-stage. To 

 this brass prism are attached two arms, which serve to support 

 a thin screen at some distance below the stage. The screen 

 is parallel to that face of the glass prism that receives the light, 

 and is pierced with a pin-hole, which permits the passage of a 

 minute beam of sunlight. With this apparatus, Col. Dr. 

 Woodward secured very fine results. 



Tolles' Illuminating Traverse L.ens. The most 

 perfect arrangement for allowing a beam of light to reach, 

 without refraction, a suitably immersed object, is the illumina- 

 ting traverse lens of Mr. Tolles. The engraving, Fig. 51, and the 

 description, which is in Mr. Tolles' own words, are from the 

 Journal of the Roy id Microscopical Society. 



