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LESSON VII. 



CUTTING, STAINING, AND MOUNTING VEGETABLE SECTIONS. 



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Bleaching — Staining in borax carmine — Hsematoxylin — Dalton 

 Smith's double stain — M. J. Cole's double stain — Staining 

 with eosin — Staining hairs on leaves — Treatment of fucus 

 and other algse — Ovaries — Flower buds — Pollens — Pharma- 

 cological specimens — Powdered drugs — ^Mounting in Canada 

 balsam - - - 168-175 



LESSON VIII. 



THE PEEPAEATION OF VEGETABLE TISSUES FOE MOUNTING IN 

 GLYCEEINE JELLY, ACETATE OF COPPER SOLUTION, ETC. 



Annular vessels — Scalariform vessels — Spiral vessels — Baphides 

 — Starches — Teast — Myoetozoa and fungi — Preserving fluid 

 for green alg® — Protooocous — Antheridia and archegonia of 

 mosses — Fertile branch of chara — Ferns — Digestive glands 

 in pitcher plant — Aleurone — Marine algse — Corallines 176-185 



LESSON IX. 



CUTTING, GRINDING, AND MOUNTING SECTIONS OF HARD 

 TISSUES — PREPARING METAL SPECIMENS. 



Bone — Eock sections — Metal specimens — Etching — ^Ferrite — 



Cementite — Pearlite - - - 185-189 



LESSON X. 



PREPARING AND MOUNTING ENTOMOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FOR THE 

 MICROSCOPE — ME. EOUSSELET's METHOD OF PEBSEEVING 

 EOTIFEEA, ETC. 



Preparing whole insects for mounting with pressure in Canada 

 balsam — Mounting insects in Canada balsam without 

 pressure— To mount insects in glycerine without pressure — 

 Method of preserving rotifera — Killing, fixing, and mounting 

 Entomostraca - - 189-200 



LESSON XI. 



CEYSTALS AND POLAEISCOPE OBJECTS. 



Crystals— Crystals of silver— Starches— Sections of starch-bearing 

 tissues — Cuticles containing raphides — Cuticles of leaves — 

 Cotton, hemp, wool, silk, flax, etc.— Scales of leaves — Fish 



