144 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Richmond Athenteum, opening of Microscopical Section in connection with. 



ErujI. Mech., XL. (1884) p. 297. 

 S., J. T. — Rcetlo's eye as a lens. 



[Dirictions for exhibiting the image tlirougli a beetle's eye.] 



Engl. Mech., XL. (1884) p. .372. 

 Slack, H. J. — Pleasant Hours with the Microscope. 

 [On the selection of a Microscope.] 



Knowledge, VI. (1884) pp. 476-7 (1 fig.). 

 Slingo, W. — Photographic Recreations. 



[Contnir.s a note on faking photo-micrographs and exhibiting them with a 

 Lantern Microscope.] 



Knoirledje, VI. (1884) pp. 485-7 (4 figs.). 



Stowell, C. H. — The Student's IManual of Histology. 



3rd ed., 370 pp., 178 tigs., 8vo, Ann Arbor, 1884. 



Stowell, C. H. and L. R.— Our Journal for 1885. 



The Microscope, IV. (1884) p. 278 (and p. 279). 



Strasbvrger, E. — Das klcine Botanischo Practicum fur Anfanger. (The 

 small ' Botauisclies Practicum " for be>j;inncrs.) 



[Abridged edition of the larger work, see IV. (18S4) p. G33.] 



viii. and 285 pp., 114 figs., 8vo, Jena, 1884. 



Thompson, W. J. — The Microscope for Class-room Demonstration. ^Post.'] 



Science, IV. (1884) pp. 540-1 (1 fig.). 



VOGEL, J. — Das Mikroskop und die wissenschaftlichen Methoden dcr Mikro- 



skopischen Untersuchung in ihrer verschiedenen Anwendung. (The 



Microscope and the scientific methods of microscopical investigation in their 



dififercnt applications.) 4th ed. by O. Zacharias. 



8vo, Leipzig, 1884. 

 VoRCE, C. M.— Multiplying drawings. [Pos^] 



Amci: Man. Micr. Joun., V. (1884) pp. 207-8. 



Waldeyer [W.] — 



[Exhibition to Berlin Physiological Society of a " Microsoope-stand which 

 he found very practicable, both for the ease and security with which it 

 enabled a Microscope to be turned in every direction, and for tlie way in 

 which it allowed the use of any system of lenses. (Apparently the 

 Westieu Universal Lens-holder, supra.)'\ 



N.tturc, XXXI. (1885) p. 212. 

 Wallich, G. C. — A new form of Condenser for the Microscope. 



[Statement of the advantages of his condenser. Cf. IV. (1884) p. 962 and 

 supra, p. 127.1 



Engl. Mech., XL. (1884) p. 320. 

 ,, „ Dr. Wallieh's Condenser. 



[Statement as to Mr. Swift's Cone Condenser.] J'jtd. (1885) p. 474. 



Ward, P. — Illumination for a aiicroscoi>e. 



[Preliminary announcement of his " Anti-thermic Illuminator."] 



Em/l. Mech., XL. (1884) p. 299. 

 Weyenbergh, H. — Catalogo del laboratorio y gabinete de histologia de la 

 Universidad Nacional en Cordoba. (Catalogue of the laboratory and cabinet 

 of histology of the National University at Cordova.) 



60 pp.. 8vo, Cordoba, 1883. 



Wilkie, F. B. — The Great Inventions : their history, from the earliest period to 



the present. Their intluence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives 



of the principal Invc^ntors ; their labors, their hardships, and their triumphs. 



[Chap. XI. The Microscope and the Telescope, pp. 143-73.] 



687 pp. (figs.y, 8vo, Philadelphia and Chicago, 1883. 

 Wright, L. — The Lantern Microscoiie. 



[As to his exhibition of it at the R. Micr. Soc. and Quekett Micr. Club. 

 Also as to a 1/4 or 1/5 in. for it, and as to showing diatoms.] 



Engl. Mech., XL. (1884) pp. 299-300. 



