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ling" of the object glass, but all this time his eye was 

 becoming educated. At the commencement it would 

 have been an utter impossibility for him to have recog- 

 nized the striae of the rhomboides with but the two- 

 inch eye-piece, nevertheless the writer saw them splen- 

 didly, and with that exquisite definition which per- 

 tains only to the work of these high-angled glasses. 

 Had 1 told my pupil this at the start, he would proba- 

 bly have received the assertion in a becoming manner, 

 meanwhile entertaining some " first class doubts " under 

 his sleeve;" full fledged doubts, too, and simply wait- 

 ing for a fine day to fly. 



Place the microscope in the hands of the shepherd 

 boy ; its total defeat is established. Adjust, if you will, 

 the objective with the utmost nicety, and arrange the 

 illumination to perfection, and total defeat still reigns 

 tiiumphant. He neither has the capacity of seeing well 

 nor of judging well of what may be seen, neverthe- 

 less, he can honestly and innocently look you squarely 

 in the face and assert that he has as good a pair of eyes 

 " as the next man." 



We have thus taken some little pains, and hope not 

 without profit to the reader, to establish a fact well 

 knwn to all who are expert in the use of the microscope. 

 If our views are correct, it obtains that no inconsider- 

 able amount of time and patient care and study are each 

 individual elements in the outlay necessary in the effort 

 to become an accomplished observer, and if this is to be 

 considered in the light of an evil, then let it be remem- 

 bered that " there are no evils unless attended with 



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