104 THE MICEOSCOPE. 



object, is only t^-ths by -f^th of an inch in size, 

 yet under the instrument, it exquisitely repre- 

 sents the partitions of the wood, and the disks 

 in them placed side by side, and not alternately, 

 as in the previously-noticed specimen of the 

 Araucaria. 



(6.) In the examination of living plants, the 

 Microscope traverses a boundless field, and un- 

 folds to us, in every spray, and leaf, and flower, 

 examples of previously unimagined and otherwise 

 unseen manifestations of the power, and wisdom, 

 and goodness of Him who created all " from the 

 cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the 

 hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Justly, 

 therefore, does Professor Balfour observe, that 

 the structure of the cells and vessels of plants 

 can only be fully seen by the aid of the Micro- 

 scope, and that " for this study the Instrument 

 is indispensable. 1 



3. Who would expect that the Antiqua- 

 rian's researches, as to events in the dark ages, 

 would be facilitated by the Microscope ? But 

 so it is. In 1847, Sir Benjamin Brodie asked 

 Mr. Quekett if it was possible to determine 



1 Balfour's Phyto- Theology, p. 50-58. 



