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be observed in selecting a thermo-regulator depend in the 

 main upon the temperatures at which it is to be used. 

 For low temperatures, regulators containing such fluids 

 as ether, alcohol, and calcium chloride solution, which 

 expand and contract rapidly and regularly under slight 

 variations in temperature, are commonly employed ; 

 whereas for temperatures approaching the boiling-point 

 of water mercury is most frequently used. 



FIG. 81. 



Moitessier's gas-pressure regulator. 



The temperature of the incubator is to be regulated, 

 then, by the use of some such form of apparatus as that 

 just described. It should be of sufficient delicacy to 

 prevent a fluctuation of more than 0.2 C. in the tem- 

 perature of the air within the chamber of the apparatus. 



GAS-PRESSURE REGULATORS. A gas-pressure reg- 

 ulator is not rarely intervened between the gas-supply 



