INDEX. 



AIR-BUBBLES, 57. 



Air-pump, 19; use of, 58. 



Alcock, Dr., on tongues of Mollusca, 

 111. 



Algse, mounting of, 88. 



Anacharis alsinastrum, rotation in, 

 134; to cultivate, 135. 



Animal tissues, dissection of, 108. 



Antenna of insects, 70; in preserva- 

 tive liquid, 91. 



Apparatus required in mounting ob- 

 jects, 1. 



Arteries, how to distinguish, in injec- 

 tion, 123. 



Asparagus, spiral vessels of, 108. 



Asphaltum, 21; and india-rubber, as 

 cement and varnish, 24. 



BAT, circulation of blood in win 0-3 of 

 133. 



Beale's, Dr., Prussian blue for inject- 

 ing, 125 ; carmine, 126. 



Bell-glasses, use of, 19. 



Berg-mehl, 43. 



Bermuda earth, 43, 



Bichromate of lead, injection with, 

 124. 



Bird, Dr. Golding, on preparation of 

 Zoophytes, 65. 



Black-japan, as a cement, 22. 



Black varnish, 23. 



Blood, as a microscopic object, 52 ; 

 circulation of, 131-140. 



Bone, sections of, 97 ; fossil, 99. 



Brass plate for heating glasses, &c., 19. 



CACTACE.E, raphides of, 54. 

 Camel-hair pencils, use of, 17. 



Canada balsam, 20 ; with chloroform, 

 20, 61, 124; with turpentine, 21; 

 air-bubbles in, 57 ; Dr. Carpenter's 

 syringe for, 59 ; to fill cells with, 

 ib. ; mounting of objects in, 57. 



Carbonic acid, 83. 



Carmine injecting fluid, Dr. Beale's, 

 125; Dale & Davies', 129. 



Cartilage, dissection of, 108. 



Castor oil, as a preservative, 83. 



Cells for dry objects, 13; with rings 

 of cardboard, 15; with gutta-percha, 

 14 ; with leather, ib. ; with ivory, 

 15; with thin glass, 14 ; with var- 

 nish, 28, 31; for balsam, 59; for 

 preservative liquids, 84-87 ; Shad- 

 bolt's turntable useful in making, 16. 



Cements, 20-23. 



Chalk, foraminifera from, 63. 



Chara vulgaris, rotation in, 134. 



Chloride of zinc, solution of, 83; of 

 calcium, solution of, 89. 



Chloroform, use of (see Canada bal- 

 sam). 



Circulation of blood, 131-133 ; of sap 

 (see Rotation). 



Cleanliness in microscopic work, 9. 



Coal, sections of, 95. 



Collection of diatoms, 33. 



Colours for injection, 117-119. 



Condenser, cheap, to make, 26. 



Corals, sections of, 95. 



Corallines, to mount, 50. 



Cover of objects, to remove, 61. 



Crystals, mounting of, dry, 52 ; to 

 vary form of, and mount in balsam, 

 73; sections of, 104 



Cuticle of equisetum, &c., 79. 



