Common objects of the microscope

Antennæ, their Structure and Use--Eyes, Compound and Simple--Breathing Organs--Jaws and their Appendages--Legs, Feet, and Suckers--Digestive Organs--Wings, Scales, and Hairs--Eg...

We will now suppose the young observer to have obtained a microscope and learned the use of its various parts, and will proceed to work with it. As with one or two exceptions, w...

On Plate IV. will be seen many examples of the curious vegetables called respectively algæ and fungi, which exhibit some of the lowest forms of vegetable life, and are remarkabl...

To go into the minutiæ of the matter here would be out of place, but it will be found very helpful, especially in the matter of illumination, to acquire some knowledge of, and f...

The white substance so dear to the laundries under the name of starch is found in a vast variety of plants, being distributed more widely than most of the products which are fou...

Great as is the range of objects presented to the student of fresh-water life, the latter field is limited indeed as compared with that afforded by the sea. The Infusoria and Ro...

Of all departments of microscopic research the most fascinating and the most popular is that which deals with what is known by the generic name of “pond-life.” The minute forms...

The microscopist who relies altogether on the dealer for his permanent preparations may expend a good deal of money, but the satisfaction which he derives from his hobby will be...

They are very common, and very difficult to find information about, most of the work relating to them having been done in Germany. At the same time, they are so highly organised...

So much depends upon a right method of employing the microscope, as regards both comfort and accuracy, that we propose to devote a little space to the consideration of the subject.

No method of examination can equal, for general applicability and usefulness, that of section-work. The relations of the parts to each other being preserved, it is possible to d...

Within the last half-century the use of the microscope, not only as an instrument of scientific research, a tool in the hands of the investigator of the finer organisation of th...

Antennæ, their Structure and Use--Eyes, Compound and Simple--Breathing Organs--Jaws and their Appendages--Legs, Feet, and Suckers--Digestive Organs--Wings, Scales, and Hairs--Eg...

Vegetable Cells and their Structure--Stellate Tissues-- Secondary Deposit--Ducts and Vessels--Wood-Cells--Stomata, or Mouths of Plants--The Camera Lucida, and Mode of Using-- Sp...