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spondingly placed objects on each of the other slides under the 

 objective as before. 



Pelletan's " Continental " Microscope.— This Microscope (fig. 161) 

 has been issued by Dr. J. Pelletan, of Paris, and claims notice not 

 for any distinctive feature in design, but as a combination of several 

 points which have hitherto been confined to English or American 



Fig. 161. 



models, together with the focusing arrangements and connection of 

 the body-tube with the pillar generally adopted on the Continent. 



The principal novelty (to the Continental public) is the adoption 

 of the swinging tail-pieces to carry the substage and mirror, each 

 moving radially to the object on the stage, after the plan modified 



