Monthly Microscopical! 
Journal, Feb. 1, 1869. J 
Royal Microscopical Society. 
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Animal Objects — continued. 
Hair of Sheep. 
„ Beaver. 
„ Moose Deer. 
„ Bear. 
„ out of the Nose. 
Scale of a Perch. 
„ „ Plaice. 
Spinning Apparatus of a Spider. 
Thread of a Spider. 
Spider's Claw. 
Teeth of a Spider. 
Eye of a Spider. 
Spinning Apparatus of a Silkworm. 
Brain of a Fly. 
Nerve Tendon (Nervure ?) of a Fly, 
Feet of a Fly. 
Hooklets and Neck of a Flea. 
Feet of a Flea. 
Eye of Aeschna grandis. 
„ Beetle. 
Hooklets of a Louse. 
Skin of a Louse. 
Spine of the Leg of a Louse. 
Pted Coral. 
Section of an Oyster Shell. 
An oyster not yet fully developed, 
in a small tube. 
Trans, and Long. Sects, of Elm wood. 
Pine wood. 
Ebony. 
Lime. 
Oak. 
Cinnamon. 
Vegetable Objects. 
Trans, and Long. Sects, of Cork. 
„ „ „ Rushes. 
„ „ „ Fossil wood. 
„ „ Seeds Ergot 
of Rye. 
Vascular bundles, Nutmeg. 
Minerals. 
Portions of Marble. Rock Crystal. Diamond. 
Gold Leaf. Gold-dust. Silver Ore. Saltpetre, &c. 
After dwelling on the merits of the first workers and improvers 
of the microscope, Quekett remarks : * " A blank now occurs in the 
pages of microscopic history from 1784 until 1800." I may add 
thenceforth, from the latter date, histology again began to obtain 
the singular pre-eminence accorded it when illumined by the pre- 
viously-mentioned galaxy of talented workers. 
F. X. Bichat (1801), H. Dutrochet (1824), Bory de St. Yin- 
cent (1826), C. G. Ehrenberg (1828-30), and C. Th. Schwann 
(1838), may be cited as profitably employing the microscope in 
their physiological, botanical, and zoological researches. They as 
well as others, however, while laying a foundation for a true classi- 
fication of textures and systematizing of microscopic organisms, did 
not anticipate the coming want of collections of microscopic pre- 
parations, derived from all substances. 
The formation of the Microscopical Society of London in 1840, 
gave an impetus to the study of histology in this country, which 
for a long time had been neglected. 
We see a fair start made in the preparing of specimens for 
cabinets, and attempts at grouping diversified substances in 
Pritchard's 'Microscopic Objects,' published in 1847. Therein is 
* ' A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope,' p. 34 (London, 1848). 
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