86 CHAPTER VI. 



alcohol before mounting in damar or colophonium, with the view, if I 

 understand rightly, of more efficaciously completing the dehydration of the- 

 preparations. I do not understand whether he mounts direct from the 

 arnyl alcohol or passes through an essence. 



123a. Methyl Salicylate. This is recommended by GUEGUEN (Comp. 

 Rend. Soc. Biol., v, 1898, p. 285 ; Journ. Roy. Mic. Soc., 1899, p. 456) 

 both as a de-alcoholisation and clearing agent, and as a solvent of paraffin. 



