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1. Placing in weak alcohol between canvas, and afterwards, 
2. With fresh paper beneath, and after drying, in strong alcohol. 
3. Immersing in a bath composed of three parts of oil of turpentine 
and one of creosote, and then in liquid paraffin. 
4. Covering with a second layer of paper and arranging in series. 
According to the author’s experience by far the most satisfactory 
adhesive material for sticking the sections on the paper- band is a thick 
solution of gum arabic. 
Freezing Microtome. — We append a figure of Dr. T. Taylor’s 
microtome, a description of which has already appeared.* Fig. B 
shows a sectional view* 
Fig. 85. 
New Cup for Sections.f — Dr. Eternod, in view of the inconveniences 
of the ordinary porcelain cups used for collecting series of sections of 
embryos, has had recourse to the new processes of manufacture adopted 
by the firm of Leybold in Cologne, by which glass vessels are made by 
* See ante , p. 565. f Zeitschr. f. Wiss. Mikr., ix. (1892) pp. 13-4. 
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