CHAPTER X 



SLIDES AND COVER-GLASSES; MOUNTING; ISOLATION; LABELING 

 AND STORING MICROSCOPIC PREPARATIONS; REAGENTS 



§ 485. Apparatus and material for Chapter X. — 



i. Glass slides for mounting micro- 12. Block with holes for supporting 



scopic objects (fig. 185-187). vials (fig. 198). 



2. Cover-glasses for covering 13. Watch glasses. 



mounted objects (fig. 185-187). 14. Labels and catalogue card (§525- 



3. Glass dishes for storing slides and 526). 



covers (§ 492). 15. Cabinets and trays for micro- 



4. Cleaning mixtures for slides and scopic objects (fig. 204-208). 



covers (§ 488, 492, 497). 16. Lockers for specimens (fig. 208). 



5. Micrometer calipers and measurer 17. Measuring and weighing appa- 

 for slides and covers (fig. 188, 189). ratus (fig. 209, § 536). 



6. Anatomical instruments, forceps, 18. Bottles for containing the various 

 scissors, scalpels, needles. reagents. 



7. Turn-table for sealing cover-glasses 19. Pipettes and simple microscopes 

 and making cells (fig. 191). (fig. 200-202). 



8. Centering card (fig. 192). 20. Fixing, imbedding, dissociating, 



9. Moist chamber (fig. 199). mounting and staining agents (§ 534- 



10. Balsam, glycerin jelly and shellac 592). 



bottles (fig. 194-195). 21. Mounting media (balsam, gly- 



11. Glass vials for preparations (fig. cerin jelly, etc.) (543-547)- 

 196-197). 



§ 486. Slides, glass slides or slips, microscopic slides or slips. — 

 These are strips of clear flat glass upon which microscopic specimens 

 are usually mounted for preservation and ready examination. The 

 size that has been almost universally adopted for ordinary prepara- 

 tions is 25 x 76 millimeters (1X3 inches). For rock sections, slides 

 25 x 45 mm. or 32 x 32 mm. are used; for serial sections, slides 25 

 X 76 mm., 38 x 76 mm. or 50 x 76 mm. are used. For special pur- 

 poses, slides of the necessary size are employed without regard to any 

 conventional standard. 



Whatever size of slide is used, it should be made of clear glass and 

 the edges should be ground. It is altogether false economy to mount 

 permanent microscopic objects on slides with unground edges. It is 

 unsafe also, as the unground edges are liable to wound the hands. 



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