XXVi CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



Substitute for a Eeading-table Part 6 910 



Spencer's 1-lOth Homogeneous Immersion Objective .. .. „ 911 



American Society of Microscopists „ 935 



/3. Collecting-, Mounting and Examining Objects, &c. 



Carbonic Acid as a Narcotic for Marine Animals .. .. Part 1 137 



Corallin as a Microscopical Reagent „ 138 



Preparing Bacillus tuberculosis ;, 139 



Staining Bacteria ,, 139 



Preparing Fatty Acids „ 1-il 



Carmine Solution ,, 141 



Prussian Blue and Safranine for Plant Sections .. .. „ 142 



Injection-Masses ,> 142 



Taylor's Freezing Microtome. (Fig. id") „ 143 



Mounting Media ,> 144 



Preparation of Dammar Var7iish ,• 145 



Hunt's American Cement „ 145 



■ Mayer's Water Bath. (Fig. 30) „ 145 



Packing Slides for Travelling ,, 146 



Examination of Living Genus in Water „ 146 



Sinel's Embryological Slides », 147 



Search for " Atlantis " with the Microscope „ 148 



Cole's Studies in Microscopical Science „ 149 



Cutting Sections of Dental Pulp „ 150 



Examination and Exhibition of Living Organisms .. .. „ 150 



Mounting Plants in Glycerine and Water „ 151 



Preventing groy-th of Mildew on Dry Mounts „ 151 



Bleaching Fluid for Insects „ 151 



How to Preserve Urinary Deposits „ 152 



Mounting in Glycerine „ 152 



Action of Tannin on the Cilia of Infusoria, with Remarks on 

 the use of Solution of Sulphurous Oxide in Alcohol. 



(Figs. 33 and Si) Part 2 185 



Collecting Small Organisms „ 290 



Chloride of Gold and Cadmium for Nerve-Terminations .. „ 290 



Monobromide of Naphthaline for Histological Preparations „ 291 

 Sulphocyanides of Ammonium and Potassium as Histological 



Reagents „ 291 



Preserving Insects, Crustacea, Worms, and small Invertebrates „ 292 



Mounting the Proboscis of a Fly ,, 292 



Preserving and Staining Protozoa „ 293 



Preservative for Fungi „ 294 



Osmic Acid for Microscopical Investigations „ 295 



Carbolic Acid in Mounting „ 296 



Injection Methods „ 297 



Ceresine and Vaseline for Imbedding „ 298 



Paul's Modification of Williams' Freezing Microtome . . „ 298 

 Thoma's Sliding Microtome (Imbedding Methods). (Figs. 



51-6) „ 298 



Fixing Sections „ 307 



