FIELD AND FOREST.* 



49. 



A Cheap Microscopical Cabinet for Slides. 



As I dare say some of the readers of this journal have felt the 

 want of some more convenient mode of bestowing their microscopic 

 slides than the old fashioned racks, and have at the same time been 

 unwilling to give the prices demanded by dealers for cabinets, I am 

 anxious to give the results of an effort I made to supply myself with a 

 set of five books to hold one hundred and fifty slides each. 



Fig. 19. 



I procured at a stationer's twenty-five Welsh slates, such as are used 

 in schools, carefully picking those having well formed, clean frames, 

 the size being 6}i by 10 inches on the inside. I removed the slate 

 from one of them, which is easily done by pressing out the pegs at two 

 of the corners and ordered twenty-five pieces stiff milled-board, about 

 as thick as that used for the backs of octavo books, to be cut to the 

 exact size of the slate I removed, and then to have highly glazed white 

 paper pasted over them. 



