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any drawer may lie partly or wholly removed without disturbing any of 

 the others. 



FlC. 210. A part of a cabinet drawer 

 seen from above. In compartment No. 06 

 is represented a slide lying flat. The label 

 of the slide and the number of the compart- 

 ment arc so placed that the number of the 

 compartment may lie seen through the slide. 

 The scaling cement is removed at one place 

 to show that in sealing the cover-glass, the 

 cement is put partly on the cover and partly 

 on the slide. 



B. — This represents a section of the 

 same pari of the drawer, (a) Slide resting 

 as in a. No. <jb. The preparation is seen to 

 t>e above a groove in the floor of the com- 

 partment, ib) One end of the slide is seen 

 to be uplifted by depressing the other into 

 the bevel. 



Fig. 211. Cabinet for 

 Microscopic Sped in e n s , 

 showing the method of ar- 

 rangement and of number- 

 ing the drawers and indi- 

 cating the number of the 

 first ami /ail compartment 

 in each drawer. It is bet- 

 ter to have the slides an 

 which the drawers rest 

 somewhat shorter, then the 

 drawer front may be entire 

 and not notched as here 

 shown. (From I'roc. Amer. 

 Micr. Soc, 1883. ) 



