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Transactions of the 
t Monthly Microscopical 
Journal, Feb. 1, 1869. 
College Museum, however, embody the practical arrangement of 
specimens, I need not dwell further on the * Lectures.' 
Dr. John Millar has been good enough to place in my hands 
two catalogues of objects bearing upon the subject under con- 
sideration, and, as I believe they are little known in this country, 
I think this a fitting place to draw attention to them. They are 
entitled, Descrijption de cent Preparations Microscopiques, tirees 
des denx regnes et jpuhliees par Institut Microscopique de Engell 
et Comp. a Wabern, pres Berne {Suisse), 1855. 
The first part or section comes under the sub-heading, Begne 
Animal, premiere Serie. 25 Prejparations ^rovenant des joroto- 
zaires, des rayonnes et des vers. 
This contains an introduction by Professor Oken, and also some 
prefatory words by Professor C. Yogt, of Geneva. Then follows a 
description of some twenty-five specimens, mounted in slides and 
numbered seriatim. 
The classification adopted is : — 
Preparations. 
I. Animaux primordiaux, ou protozoaires . . = 4 | 
Eponges au Spongiaires .. .. = 5 1 
II. Bayonnes =11? = 25 
III. Les Vers =2 
Les Bryozoaires = 3j 
The second part contains, Begne Animal, Beuxieme Serie. 
25 Preparations provenant des moUusques, des articules, et des 
vertebres. 
Preparations. 
IV. MoUusques = 5\ 
v. Artropodes ou Articules =12 
YI. Vertebres :■ — 
Peau et ecailles Wun poisson = ll 
Foils et coupes transversales de poils .. ,. = 3 [ ~~ 
Coupe d'os . . . . = 1 
Globules sanguins = 1 
Injections de vaisseaux sanguins .. .. = 2 > 
Les Beins. 
LjCs Poumons. 
Le Foie. 
Intestines. 
Each group is prefaced by some general remarks, preparing, as 
it were, the student to comprehend the several preparations classed 
under it. I am in ignorance if two succeeding parts of the 
catalogue have ever been published. 
Dr. W. B. Carpenter is among those who have done much 
towards the difiusion of educational and sound scientific histological 
knowledge in this country. His volume on ' The Microscope and 
its Eevelations' (1857, and 4th Ed., 1868), while not professing to 
give any elaborate philosophical arrangement, yet comprehends 
