174 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Each page lias (three times repeated) the following : — 



Common Name 



Scientific Name 



I.ocnlity obtained from 



Obtained by 



Mounted by 



Special Object of Preparation 



Method of Hardenino 

 Staining Agent 

 Clearing Agent 

 Mounting Medium 

 Date 

 Kemarks 



lu addition to numbered spac{;S for 500 preparations, there are pages 

 ruled for formulas, so that they can be referred to by number and the 

 repetition of the details with each object avoided. Also an index for 

 cataloguing each preparation. 



Gerard's ' Traite, pratique de Micrographie.'* — This book, by Prof. 

 11. Gerard, of the Ecole supcrieiire de i)harmacie at Paris, and formerly 

 Director of the Microscopical Laboratory there, is one of the most extensive 

 works on practical microscopy that has been published for some years. After 

 a comparatively brief account of the Microscope and accessories, 325 pages 

 are devoted to Botany, 48 to Zoology, and 64 to the api:)lication of the 

 Microscope to clinical researches and hygiene. The illustrations include 

 279 woodcuts and 40 plates. The author gives throughout the work 

 detailed statements of the technical processes which he has found most 

 successful for each subject treated of. 



Lee and Henneguy's 'Traite des Methodes Techniques de TAnatomie 

 Microscopique.'t — Microscopists will remember the excellent ' Microtomist's 

 Vade-Mecum ' of Mr. A. B. Lee,:[ which collected and grouped in a con- 

 venient form the numerous and varied technical methods which had pre- 

 viously been scattered through a large number of serial publications. This 

 work, whilst not strictly a translation of the ' Vade-Mecum,' is in the 

 main founded upon it. Some chapters have been rewritten and extended, 

 especially those relating to embryology, the cell, and the nervous centres. 

 M. Henneguy claims that it includes " at once the grammar and the 

 dictionary of microscopical technique." The translation was made by 

 Mr. Lee and revised by M. Henneguy, and there is a commendatory preface 

 by Prof. Kanvier. 



(9) Bibliography. 



Alling, C. E. — Microscopical Records. [_Supra, p. 173.] 4to, Eochester, N.Y., 18S6. 



Abcangeli, G. — Sopra alctmi dissoluzioni carminiche destinate alia coloritura degli 



elementi istologici. (On some carmine solutions for stainiug the histological 



elements.) Bich. e Lav. Escg. Istit. Bot. B. Univ. Pisa, I. (ISSti) p. 95. 



B.Sc. — Cutting, Staining, and Mounting Vegetable Sections. 



Scientific Enquirer, II. (1887) pp. 6-8. 

 Beck, J. D. — Mounting Pollens. 



["Pollen maybe mounted dry and in any desirable medium on the same slidi-, 

 as follows: — Spin a ring of the medium on a slide with a sable brush, from 

 1/16 iu. to 1/8 in. wide, so that it will be covered by tlie cover-glass. Cliango 

 the cover-glass with the pollen and press down gently. The pollen iu tho 

 middle will be dry while that around the edges will be in the medium."] 



The Microscope, VI. (1S8G) p. 262. 



Behkens, T. H. — Sur I'analyse microchimique des mmeraux. (On the micro-chemical 



analysis of minerals.) \_Post.'] Ann. de V Ecole Polytechn. Delft (1885) p. 17t>. 



Pec. Trav. CUim., V. (1886) pp. 1-33. 



* Ge'rard, R., ' Traite pratique de Micrographie applique'e a la Botanique, a la 

 Zoologie, a rHygieue et aux recherches cliuiques,' iv. and 511 pp., 279 figs., and 40 

 pis., 8vo, Paris, 1887. 



t Lee, A. B., and F. Henneguy, ' Tiaitc' des Methodes techniques de I'ABatomie 

 Microscopique, Histologic, Embryologic ct Zoologie,' 8vo, Paris, 1887. 



X See this Journal, 1885, p. 355. 



