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LABELING AND CATALOGING. 



\CH. VII. 



96 



/Sir 



Jo.fy 

 A'erce. filers 

 Cat 



70 



are made of sufficient width to receive two slides, then the double slides so fre- 

 quently used in mounting serial sections may be put into the cabinet in any place 

 desired. 



A B F'g- r l°- — A — .Part of a cabinet drazver seen 



from above. In compartment No. 96 is repre- 

 sented a slide lying flat. The label of the 

 slide and the number of the compartment are 

 Zl so placed that the number of the compartment 

 may be seen through the slide. The sealing 

 cement is removed at one place to shozv that in 

 sealing the cover-glass, the cement is put 

 a partly on the cover and partly on the slide. 



a 229, 234). 



B. — This represents a section of the same 



part oj the drazver. (a) Slide resting as in 



A. No. 1)6 The preparation is seen to be 



Z] above a grooz'e in the floor of the comparl- 



n ment. (b) One end of the slide is seen to be 



II up/ if led by depressing the other into the bevel. 



1 1 (4). The drawers of the cabinet should be 



II l entirely independent, so that any drawer may 

 I be partly or wholly removed without disturb- 

 ing any of the others. 



(5). Ou the front of each drawer should be 



the number of the drawer in Roman nuiner- 



J als, and the number of the first and last com- 



Fig. 140. partuient in the drawer in Arabic numerals. 



(Fig. 141). 



Fig. 141. — Cabinet for Mi- 

 croscopical Specimens, show- 

 ing the method of arrange- 

 ment and of numbering the 

 drawers and indicating the 

 number of the first and last 

 compartment in each drazver. 

 It is better to have the slides 

 on which the drawers rest 

 somezvhat shorter, then the 

 drazver front may be entire 

 and not notched as here 

 shown. (From Proc. Amer. 

 Micr. Soc. 1883). 



