142 THE MICROSCOPE. 



CHAPTER IX. 



APPLICATIONS AND CAPABILITIES OF THE MICROSCOPE. 



1. IN the most recent appliances of the 

 Microscope, we find it, after traversing worlds 

 after scanning heaven's heights, and fathom- 

 ing ocean's depths, and digging deep into the 

 bowels of the earth after penetrating to the 

 remotest past ages, and making us acquainted 

 with many a new form of existence, and many 

 a new race of beings at length bringing us 

 back to look again on old familiar faces, but' 

 in an extraordinary and interesting way : We 

 allude to the exquisitely beautiful microscopic 

 photographs taken by Mr. Dancer of Man- 

 chester. 



2. Many as are the portraits of her Majesty 

 Queen Victoria, our beloved Sovereign, we re- 

 gard as among the most interesting and singu- 

 lar of them all that little speck, that scarcely 



