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purposes for which it is devised. It consists of a handsome polished deal 
case, with lock and key, and is divided in to several compartments, in which 
are placed all the appliances required by the general microscopist. To enu- 
merate the contents would be useless, but we may mention some of the 
apparatus supplied. These are: A spirit lamp, mounting table, turning 
table for cells, a set of wire-spring clips, bottles containing all the fluids 
(balsam, turpentine, gold size, &c.), tin cells, ground-glass slides, thin 
covering glass, &c. The whole case is so compact, so ingeniously 
arranged, and so full of all the materials required in mounting objects, that 
we have no doubt it will meet with the approval of our readers. 
THE AMATEUR’S “MOUNTING” CASE. 
The Student's u Mounting ” Case . — This case has been prepared by Mr. 
Collins at our suggestion, and we venture to think that it will meet the 
wants of those who are engaged in the study of animal tissues. The 
study of human histology is so different from that in which most micro- 
scopists are engaged, that it requires a set of contrivances and apparatus for 
investigation quite distinct from those generally employed in microscopic 
observation. The student is often at a loss to know what appliances he 
requires for his researches, and not unfrequently when this first difficulty is 
surmounted, he is ignorant as to where he may procure these appliances ; this 
last obstacle, being enhanced by the fact that he must go from one optician’s 
to another to get together his materials. Finally, he must bring a pre- 
scription to a chemist for his injecting fluids. Now, we know, from our 
own experience, that the earnest medical student has very little leisure at 
his disposal, and we have therefore caused to be put together the several 
fluids and instruments which we believe to be essential to his microscopical 
inquiries. The woodcut to some extent shows the nature of the new case, 
