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through chloroform into paraffin in a fcmall gluts tube, and after r oliiig 

 breaks the tube and so obtains a cylinder of paraffin with the objects 

 ready for cutting. 



HOYER (Arch. inik. Anat., liv, 1899, p. 98) perfoims all the operations 

 in a glass cylinder (o cni. long and 7 mm. wide), open at both ends, but 

 having a piece of moist parchment paper tied over one of the openings. 

 It is then not necessary to break the cylinder; by removing the parch- 

 ment paper the paraffin can be pushed out of it in the shape of a 

 cylinder containing the objects imbedded at one end of it. 



MAYER (Zcit. vVs. Milir.. xxiv, 1907, p. 120) takes the gelatin capsules 

 used by chemists; after cooling in water the gelatin swells and is easily 

 removed. 



MEVES (Arch. mikr. Anat., Ixxx, Abth. ii, 1912, p. 85) employs wedge- 

 shaped capsules made by G. Pohl, Schoiibaum, Be/, Daiitzig. 



