CONTENTS ix 



PAGES FIG. 



CHAPTER X 312-367 185-21S 



Materials of Microscopy; Mounting and Storing Microscopic 

 Specimens: Slides and cover-glasses, their size and preparation; 

 Mounting microscopic objects in the various ways; Isolation of 

 tissue elements; Collection and study of microscopic animals and 

 plants; Labeling, cataloguing and storing microscopic prepara- 

 tions; Cabinets, lockers and trays for specimens; Reagents for 

 microscopic work, with formulae for their preparation. 



CHAPTER XI 368-423 216-247 



Fixing, Imbedding, Sectioning, Staining; Serial Sections and 

 Models: Fixation and preservation of organs, tissues, embryos 

 and small animals for microscopic study; Microtomes and sec- 

 tion knives for microscopic sections; Free-hand sectioning. 

 Paraffin method of sectioning; CoUodioo method of sectioning; 

 Staining and mounting; Serial sectioning and its advantages; 

 Serial sections of embryos and small animals; Orientation for 

 sectioning and mounting the series; Planes for sectioning, — 

 transverse, saggital and frontal; Modeling with wax, and with 

 blotting paper. Drawings for models. 



CHAPTER XII 424-443 248-252 



Brief History of Lenses and Microscopes: Lenses and their 

 use for spectacles, for projection apparatus; Simple microscopes; 

 Dutch compound microscope; Keplerian compound microscope; 

 Binocular microscopes; Microscopes where two or more ob- 

 servers can look at the same object at the same time; Mirrors 

 and condensers; Achromatization; Immersion and homoge- 

 neous immersion objectives; Projection microscope; Drawing 

 magnified images by the aid of the camera lucida and projection 

 apparatus. 



Bibliography 445-45^ 



Index 453-472 



