TRANSACTIONS. 
On an Improved MountIng Table. 
By Mr. D. E. Goddard, 
(Read Jan. 13th, 1864.) 
This table is intended to assist amateurs in drying and 
hardening preparatio ns mounted in Canada balsam^ so that 
no time is lost before the specimens are ready for the cabinet 
This operation has presented no small difficulty to many. 
Baking the slides in the oven and heating them on tables of 
flat metal have not been attended with complete and imme- 
diate success. 
My esteemed friend, Mr. W. L. Freestone, kindly showed 
me how this fruitful source of perplexity and delay could be 
overcome. He uses a piece of sheet zinc^ from 8 to 10 
inches long and 3 wide ; the ends are bent at right angles, 
so as to staud on the shade-holder of an ordinary parafin 
lamp. The top of the table is sunk or grooved in the centre, 
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