CONTENTS. 



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PAGB 



Mounting Sections in Series . . Part 2 308 



Creese's Turntable. (Fig. 57) , 308 



Simple Method of Mounting Objects for Microscopical 



Examination ,, 309 



Hudson' s Extract of Soap for Cleaning Slides „ 310 



Preparations of Mineral Crystals „ 312 



Paper-clip for Mounting , 312 



Removing Air from Diatoms ,, 312 



Preparing and Cutting Amphibian Eggs Part 3 442 



Preparing Sections of and Examining Embryos „ 443 



Imbedding Small Bodies „ 444 



Mounting Insects in Balsam without Pressure „ 444 



Reagent for Simultaneous Staining and Hardening .. .. ,, 445 

 Anilin Colouring Matters as Staining Media for Human 



and Animal Tissues „ 446 



Double Staining Nucleated Blood-corpuscles xoith Anilin 



Dyes „ 447 



Deecke's Microtome. — Cutting and Mounting Sections through 



the Entire Human Brain „ 449 



Schuhe's Section-stretcher. (Fig. 87) „ 450 



Preparation of Marine Algce ,, 451 



Arrangement of Diatoms „ 452 



Paper Cells „ 453 



Making Tinfoil Cells , , 454 



Ivory Drop-Black .. „ 455 



Selection of Cover-glass „ 455 



Labelling Slides „ 456 



Economical Cabinet for Slides „ 456 



Mailer's Typen- and Probe-Platten „ 457 



Slack's Silica Films „ 457 



Utility of the Microscope in Chemistry „ 458 



Preparing Thin Slices of Pocks and Minerals. (Figs. 88 



and89) „ 461 



Making Sections of Pock, Bone, Ivory, 4'c „ 467 



Mounting Legs, &c., of Insects „ 469 



Breakage of Slides in the Mail „ 469 



Alcohol for Mounting Lophopus crystallinus with Tentacles 



expanded „ 469 



Improved Filtering Reagent Bottle „ 470 



Extracting Diatoms, ^c, from Stomachs of Animals . , „ 470 



Preparation of Bacillaria paradoxa „ 471 



Preserving the Fresh-water Medusa. (Fij. 90) . . . . Part 4 485 



Water-collecting Apparatus. (Fig. 117) „ 596 



Preparations of Coal „ 597 



Cathcarfs Ether Microtome. (Fig. 1]8) „ 597 



Glycerine Mounting „ 599 



Mounting Sections in Series " .. .. „ 600 



Sealing up Preparations „ 601 



Opaque Dry Mounts „ 601 



Examining Live Aphides „ 602 



