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was examined as a witness and detailed the result of his examination 

 with the Microscope of the surfaces of the statues in the collection. 



" The Cypriote stone whereof these statues are sculptured is a 

 cellular calcareous tufa. The cells are minute and crowded. There 

 are about 1500 to the square inch. They are spherical in shape, and 

 about 1/100 in. in diameter. When freshly cut, it will be 

 found that the walls of some cells are harder than the walls of others. 

 The hard walls resist the effects of the atmosphere with more success 

 than the softer ones. During exposure these soft spaces sink first, 

 and leave the hard ones standing, like craters on the face of the moon. 

 The soft spaces sink into dome-like shapes, and small orifices indicate 

 that the atmosphere has begun to affect them. Then the cups thus 

 formed are carried away, the hard projections roll off in small globes, 

 and the process recommences. Each process occupies several centuries. 

 In the case of buried objects in Cyprus, the water filtering through the 

 ground makes a deposit on them, more or less thick, of carbonate of 

 lime. I have given seven or eight hours to the microscopical 

 examination of the statuette of Venus, and it is susceptible of 

 scientific demonstration that the surface of the so-called mirror and 

 the surrounding surface are ancient. On the mirror are eight stipi)les 

 of carbonate of lime, deposited in the way I have stated, which are an 

 integral part of the ancient surface, and would not appear on a freshly 

 cut surface. These evidences of antiquity could not be taken away 

 without breaking the stone. They fill the cavities whereof I have 

 spoken. They appear on the surface of the drapery within 3/16 in. of 

 the mirror's outline. My Microscope would have disclosed cement 

 1/1000 in. in thickness." 



" B.Sc." — Carbolic Acid and Cement. 



[Fresh-water Algaj mounted three years ago in a weak carbolic-acid solu- 

 tion with asphaltum for the cement are still perfectly good.] 



ScL-Gossip, 1884, p. 137. 

 Bbiant, T. J. — Notes on putting up Microscopic Objects. 



licp. South Lotid. Micr. and Nat. Hist. Club, 1884, p. 13. 

 Chapman's (A. B.) New Microtome. 



IS'ipra, p. 642.] Sci.-Gossi2), 1884, p. 137. 



Cole, A. C. — Methods of Microscopical Research. 



Part XI. Mounting (continued), pp. Ivii.-lxi. (Mounting the DiatomaceaB. 

 Cleaning and Mounting Polycystina. Preparation and Mounting of 

 Insects. Preparation of Vegetable Sections. To Double Stain Vegetable 

 Sections.) 

 Part XII. pp. Lxiii.-lxxii. On Microscopical Drawing and Painting (by 

 E. T. D.). 

 „ „ Popular Micro.sropical Studies. IX. pp. 39-42. The Ciane Fly 

 (Tipula Oleracea). Plate 9 X 40. 

 No. X. pp. 43-6. Sponge. Plate 10. 



No. XI. pp. 47-52. Starch. Plate 11 (Sarsaparilia officinalis x 400). 

 „ „ Studies in Microscopical Science. 



Vol. II. No. 19. Sec. I. No. 10. pp. 37-40. Nerve of Horse. Plate 10. 



T. S. X 150. 

 No. 20. Sec. II. No. 10. pp. 39-42. Vascular Tissue (continued). Plate 10. 



Wood Vessels and Cells. 

 Vol.11. No. 21. See. I. No. 11. pp. 41-4. Human Cerebellum, Plate 



U. T.S. X 150. 

 No. 22. Sec. II. No. 11. pp. 43-G. Fundamental Tissue. Plate 11. 

 T. S. Petiole of Limnanihemuin x 75. 



