Index 



291 



Positive eyepiece, 50 

 Potassium bichromate, 133 

 Powell and Lealaud's objectives, 55, 

 76 

 condenser, 91 

 Power and aperture, 64 

 Preserving, mounting and hardening 



tissues, 132 

 Projection eyepieces, 81 

 Protococous, 181 



Puncture methods of injection, 167 

 Pye's microtome, 234 



Q. 



Quekett Microscopical Club, 3 

 Queen and Co.'s microscope, 38 

 Quills, 204 



R. 



Kackwork and pinion, diagonal, 19 

 Ramsden's micrometer, 116 

 Raphides, 177 

 Razors, choice of, 226 



setting, 227 

 Refractive index, 50 

 Regulators, gas, 260 

 Reichert's fine adjustment, 24 



gas regulator, 260 



objectives, 56, 76 



microscope, 38 



microtomes, 239 

 Reinhold-Giltay microtome, 242 

 Resolution, limit of, 61 

 Revolving nosepieces, 110 

 Ribbon sections, 275 



finishing, 279 



mounting, 278 



stretching of, 277 



treatment of, 276 

 Ringing mounts, 222 

 Rock sections, 186 

 Rocking microtome, 144 

 Rotifera, preserving and mounting, 



195 

 Rouaselet, Mr. C. F., method of pre- 

 serving rotifera, 196 

 Rousselet's compressor and live cage, 



119 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 3 



gauges, 82 



8. 



Scalariform vessels, 177 



Sehanze's microtomes, 230, 243, 244 



Sharpening knives, 251, 253 



razors, 227 

 Schutz's stain, 162 

 Screens, coloured, 87, 88 



Screws, male and female, 50 



Secondary spectrum, 51 



Section cutting, 136 



Sections, production of, 262 



Selenites, 193 



Semi-apochromatic objectives, 56 



Semi-apochromatism, 51 



Shellac method, 152 



Side silver reflector, 105 



Sieves for foraminifera, 214 



Sliding microtomes, 241 



Spectrum, 51 



Spherical aberration, 52, 65, 73 



Spiral vessels, 177 



Spirillum, 163 



Spirogyra, 181 



Sponges, 210, 211 



Spot lens, 101 



Springing fittings, 47 



Stage forceps, 120 



Stage, the, 11, 14 



Staining animal sections, 145 



general remarks, 280 



in bulk, 149 



reagents, 128 



sections, on slides, 152 



vegetable sections, 168 

 Stand condenser, 104 

 Starches, 179, 202 

 Sting of wasp and bee, 193 

 Stomata, 176 

 Stops, 52 

 Strop paste, 256 

 Stropping knives, 256 

 Strops, 227, 255 

 Sub-stage, 17 



fine adjustment to, 17 

 Swift and Son's condenser, 91 



eyepieces, 80 



fine adjustment, 24 



microscopes, 19, 39, 40, 41, 68 



objectives, 56 



Stephenson binocular, 33 

 Swift-Ives' camera luoida, 114 

 Syphilis bacillus, 162 



T. 



Tailpiece, 29 



Teabing-out tissues, 155 



Testing a microscope, 46 

 knife edge, 257 

 methylated spirit, 265 

 objectives, 70 



Test-plate, Abbe's, 72 



Text-books, 123 



Toison's solution, 151 



Travellers' microscopes, 39 



Trichina spiralis, 165 



