ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MIOROSOOPY, ETC. 



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H A L K Y A R D, E. — The Collection and Preparation of Foraminifera. 



Trans. Manchester Micr. Soc, ISSS, pp. 53-9 (1 pi.). 

 Latham, V. A.— Histology of the Teeth — Notes on Methods of Preparation. 



Journ. of JlJicroscopy, II. (1889) pp. 137-52. 

 Ranvier, L. — Traite technique d'histologie. (Treatise on histological technique.) 



2na ed., 870 pp. and 444 figs. 8vo, Paris, 1889. 

 lioGERS, F. A. — Preparation of Drug Sections for Microscopical Examination. 



Queen's AJicr. Bulletin, VI. (1889) pp. 12-3, 

 from ' Rocky Mountain Druggist.' 

 Tyas, W. H. — Methods of Hardening, Imbedding, Cutting, and Staining Animal 

 Sections, and Methods of Mounting the same. 



Trans. Manchester Micr. Soc, 1888, pp, 83-5. 

 Whitelegge, T. — On Collecting, Cleaning, and Mounting Foraminifera. 



Ibid., pp. 12-4. 

 „ „ Notes of a Method of killing Zoophytes and Botifera. 



[Chloroform and spirits.] Ibid., pp. 14-5. 



C3) Cutting-, including Imbedding- and Microtomes. 



King's Microtome.* — Mr. J. D. King claims for his microtome no 

 superiority over other first-class instruments for ordinary histological 

 work in animal tissues, but it is designed especially for hard service in 

 botanical work or for cutting any hard material, which requires absolute 

 rigidity in the instrument. 



The knife e is attached to a heavy nickel-plated iron carriage A, by a 



Fig. 95. 



steel clamp and shoe h and c, with milled-head screws a. The carriage 

 runs on a solid iron track h and B, which is held to a table by clamp 

 screw k. 



For cutting very hard objects, like the wiry stems of plants or the 



• Tlie Microscopo, ix. (1889) pp. 76-7 (1 fig.). 



