CONTENTS 



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 I. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF MICROSCOPICAL OPTICS . . 1 

 II. THE PRINCIPLES AND THEORY OF VISION WITH THE COM- 

 POUND MICROSCOPE 36 



III. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROSCOPE . . 117 



IV. ACCESSORY APPARATUS . . , 270 



V. OBJECTIVES, EYE-PIECES, THE APERTOMETER . . . 353 



vi. PRACTICAL MICROSCOPY: MANIPULATION AND PRESERVATION 



OF THE MICROSCOPE 397 



VII. PREPARATION, MOUNTING, AND COLLECTION OF OBJECTS . . 438 



VIII. MICROSCOPIC FORMS OF VEGETABLE LIFE THALLOPHYTES . 530 



IX. FUNGI 633 



X. MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF THE HIGHER CRYPTOGAMS . 665 



XI. OF THE MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF PHANEROGAMIC PLANTS . 684 



XII. MICROSCOPICAL FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE PROTOZOA . . 726 



XIII. ANIMALCULES INFUSORIA AND ROTIFERA .... 753 



XIV. FORAMINIFERA AND RADIOLARIA ...... 795 



XV. SPONGES AND ZOOPHYTES 855 



XVI. ECHINODERMA 884 



XVII. POLYZOA AND TUNICATA 904 



XVIII. MOLLUSCA AND BHACHIOPODA 919 



XIX. WORMS . . . 943 



XX. CRUSTACEA 957 



XXI. INSECTS AND ARACHNIDA 972 



XXII. VERTEBRATED ANIMALS 1017 



XXIII. APPLICATION OF THE MICROSCOPE TO GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGA- 

 TION 1066 



XXIV. CRYSTALLISATION, POLARISATION, MOLECULAR COALESCENCE . 1094 



INDEX . 1137 



