ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 183 



Taylor, T. — Butter and Fats. [Post.'] 



The Microscope, V. (1885) pp. 212-4 (8 figs.). 

 Threlfall's Method of Fixing arranged Diatoms and Sections. 

 [Cf. Vol. III. (1883) p. GOO, and Vol. IV. (1884) p. 308.] 



Amer. Man. Micr. Journ., VI. (1885) p. 233. 

 Trelease, W. — A convenient Laboratory Plant. 



[A Mucor of the Rhizopus section, which springs up spontaneously and can 

 be kept growing almost indefinitely on bread.] 



Bot. Gazette, X. (1885) pp. 426-7 (1 fig). 

 TscHiRCH, A. — TJeber eine Methode den griinen Farbstoff der Blatter aus . . . 

 Rohlaugen zu entfernen. (On a method of removing the green colouring 

 matter from leaves.) 



IPost.] Bot. Centralhl, XXIV. (1885) pp. 314-5. 



„ „ Cblorophyll-praparate. (Preparations of chlorophyll.) 



[The ordinary preparations are more or less yellow-green, not emerald- 

 green. Schiitz of Vienna supplies a pure emerald-green preparation 

 after a method of the author.] 



Bot. Centralhl, XXIV. (1885) p. 315. 

 ViGNAL, W. — See Malassez, L. 

 Wali>, O. a. — The Microscopical Examination of Drugs. 



[A large number may be satisfactorily examined with a Coddington lens 

 magnifying 10 or 12 times. Pharmacopoeial requirements. Objects to 

 be examined by low power. Value of characteristic marks. Sections 

 by reflected light. Chemical treatment of simple sections. Objects to 

 be examined. Importance of studying sections. Preparing drugs for 

 examination " without making regular mounted sections."] 



St. Louis Nation. Druggist, VII. (1885) pp. 257 and 269, 293 and 307. 

 „ „ Proper Thinness of Sections. 



[Criticism of an article by Dr. E. C. Mann in ' Medical Bulletin,' that the 

 " best test of a fine section is the ease with which it floats in a glass of 

 water ! "] 



Ibid., p. 320. 

 Warden, C. J. H. — The Biological examination of Water. 



[On examining potable water for micro-organisms. 1. Description of 

 bacteriological apparatus. 2. Preparation of reagents. 3. Collection of 

 samples. 4. Analytical process. 5. Inferences to be drawn from the 

 r6siiliis "1 

 Chem. News, LII. (1885) pp. 52-4 (9 figs.), 66-8 (3 figs.), 73-6 (2 figs.), 89, 101-4. 

 Weigert. — Nowy Mikrotom do duzych skrawkdw. (New microtome for 

 large sections.) 



HirscKs Jahresbericht Anat. u. Physiol, (for 1884) 1885, p. 38, 

 from Gazeta Lekarska, 1884, No. 51. 

 White, T. C. — Aids in Photo-micrography. 



[Bleaching brown chitiu of insects — Braxton Hicks' bleach. Keeping 

 Infusoria quiet— Sternberg's fluid, Vol. V. (1885) p. 912.] 



Year-book of Photography, 1886, pp. 103-4- 

 Whitman, CO. — (1) Imbedding in Paraffin. (2) Orientation with small objects. 

 (3) Prevention of Bubbles. 

 [(1) Clarifying media. Lee, supra, p. 163- HoU, cf. Vol. V. (1885) p. 541. 

 Imbedding box, supra, p. 165. (2) Supra, p. 165. (3) Supra, p. 166.] 



Amer. Natural, XIX. (1885) pp. 1247-9 (1 fig.). 

 Wood Sections. 



[Directions for cutting by B.Sc, .1. S. Bigg, S. Bottone, and Doctor 

 Medicinaj, and drawing of Microtome.] 



Engl Mech., XLII. (1886) pp. 391 and 411 (1 fig.), 

 Zeiss's New Catalogue. Amer. Mon. Micr. Journ., VL (1885) p. 21S. 



