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boiling in water and allowing to cool, replacing tlie water by 
carbolic acid, when alternate boiling and cooling at intervals more 
or less lengthened will effectually dispose of air in the cells. 
Those who have opportunities of collecting on the sea-shore will 
find that, just after storms, many species will have been washed 
up)on the beach, some possibly alive. Objects thus obtained, or by 
means of dredging, should at once be placed in small phials, in a 
fluid consisting of spirits of wine and water in equal parts— 
sea-water will do. When these are taken home, they should be 
washed several times in fresh water, to get rid of the salt, sorted, 
and transferred to a mixture of spirits of wine and fresh water in 
equal parts. They can thus be kept in good order for any length 
of time, or they may be mounted at once by the carbolic process. 
Radulas or palates of molluscs should be boiled in strong 
liquor potassre for a few minutes, well washed in three or four 
waters to remove all traces of the potash, and then, treated with 
the carbolic acid as above described, may be mounted very 
quickly. 
To ensure clear mounts the balsam should always be 
immediately preceded by perfectly clean acid, displacing with 
the aid of blotting paper the acid previously used. If this bo 
neglected, and the acid first used should not be completely 
removed, a little cloudiness may result from the admixture of the 
balsam with the water in the acid. In this case the slide must 
be flooded in fresh acid, to soften the balsam, heated, and the 
cloudy balsam drawn off by blotting paper, substituting fresh 
balsam. 
A New Method of Making Cells of Wax for Mounting Opaque 
and Transparent Objects. By F. Barnard. 
[Bead 25th September, 1879.] 
Having lately been making some experiments to get a more con¬ 
veniently made cell than those generally in use, I am desirous of 
making the result of my work known to the members of this 
society, hoping it will be at least some use to the younger members 
and give an opportunity to others to improve on it. 
It is well known to all mounters of microscopic objects that a 
