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MICROSCOPICAL RESEARCH 



Chapter II. 



Tools and Methods of Work. 



The apparatus and instruments requisite for use in microscopical 

 research vary in accordance with the requirements of each individual 

 worker. The acquisition of a complete outfit for all-round research 

 work is an expensive business, but much good work may be done with 

 comparatively simple and inexpensive tools. In all cases the worker's 



Fig. 4. — Tools required in the dissection of animals and plants. 



outfit should be as simple as possible compatible with the work it is 

 intended to undertake. The following list will be fairly complete for 

 ordinary purposes, viz., a microscope with lin., Jin., and J-in. objective. 



