DIPPING TUBES. 



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object, may be separated by pressing the two projecting 

 studs ; to the opposite end of the wire is adapted a small 

 brass cup, filled with cork, into which pins, passed through 

 discs of cork, card-board, or other material, having objects 

 mounted on them, may be stuck. 



Dipping-tubes are tubes of glass, fig. 114, about nine inches 

 in length, open at both ends, and from one-eighth to one- 



Fig. 114. Dipping Tubes. 



Fig. 115. 



fourth of an inch in diameter. The ends must be nicely 

 rounded off in the flame of a blow-pipe; some of them may 

 be made perfectly straight, while others should be drawn out 

 to a fine point, and made of either of the shapes a, 6, c, d, e. 

 The method of using them is as follows : Supposing the 

 animalcules are contained in a phial or glass jar (fig. 115), 

 and having observed where they are most numerous, 

 either \7ith the naked eye, or with a pocket-magnifier, 



