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Powers that are most serviceable--Estimated by Focal length--Length of Body of Microscope and its Effects--Popular Errors about Great Magnification--Modes of Stating Magnifying Power--use of an "Erector"--Power of various Objectives with different Eye-pieces--Examination of Su...
Powers that are most serviceable--Estimated by Focal length--Length of Body of Microscope and its Effects--Popular Errors about Great Magnification--Modes of Stating Magnifying...
2. CHAPTER II.Visit to the Ponds--Confervae--Spirogyra quinina--Vorticella--Common Rotifer--Three Divisions of Infusoria--Phytozoa--Protozoa--Rotifera--Tardigrada--Meaning of these Terms--Eug...
3. CHAPTER III.Visit to Hampstead--Small ponds--Water-Fleas--Water-Beetle--Snails--Polyps--Hydra viridis--The Dipping-tube--A Glass Cell--The Hydra and its Prey--Chydorus Sphaericus and Cantho...
4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.The Beautiful Floscule--Mode of Seeking for Tubicolar Rotifers--Mode of Illuminating the Floscule--Difficulty of seeing the Transparent Tube--Protrusion of Long Hairs--Lobes--Gi...
6. CHAPTER VI.Floscularia cornuta--Euchlanis triquetra--Melicerta ringens--Its Powers as Brickmaker, Architect, and Mason--Mode of Viewing the Melicerta--Use of Glass Cell--Habits of Melicert...
7. CHAPTER VII.Lindia torulosa--OEcistes crystallinus--A Professor of Deportment on Stilts--Philodina--Changes of Form and Habits--Structure of Gizzard in Philodina Family--Mr. Gosse's Descrip...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mud Coloured by Worms--Their Retreat at Alarm--A Country Duck-Pond--Contents of its Scum--Cryptomonads--Their Means of Locomotion--A Triarthra (Three-limbed Rotifer)--The Brachi...
9. CHAPTER IX.Microscopic Value of Little Pools--Curious Facts in Appearance and Disappearance of Animalcules and Rotifers--Mode of Preserving them in a Glass Jar--Fragments of Melicerta Tube...
10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.Characteristics of the Polyzoa--Details of Structure according to Allman--Plumatella repens--Its Great Beauty under proper Illumination--Its Tentacles and their Cilia--The Mouth...
12. CHAPTER XII.Microscopic Hunting in Winter--Water-Bears, or Tardigrada--Their Comical Behaviour--Mode of viewing them--Singular Gizzard--Wenham's Compressorium--Achromatic Condenser--Mouth o...
13. CHAPTER I.Powers that are most serviceable--Estimated by focal length--Length of body of microscope and its effects--Popular errors about great magnification--Modes of stating magnified p...
14. CHAPTER II.Visit to the ponds--Confervae--Spirogyra quinina--Vorticella--Common Rotifer--Three divisions of Infusoria--Phytozoa--Protozoa--Rotifera--Tardigrada--Meaning of these terms--Eug...
15. CHAPTER III.Visit to Hampstead--Small ponds--Water-fleas--Water-beetle--Snails--Polyps--Hydra viridis--The dipping-tube--A glass cell--The Hydra and its prey--Chydorus sphaericus and Cantho...
16. CHAPTER IV.The _Paramecia_, noticed in the last chapter, have increased and multiplied their kind without any fear lest the due adjustment between population and food should fail to be pre...
17. CHAPTER V.The beautiful Floscule--Mode of seeking for Tubicolor Rotifers--Mode of illuminating the Floscule--Difficulty of seeing the transparent tube--Protrusion of long hairs--Lobes--Gi...
18. CHAPTER VI.Floscularia cornuta--Euchlanis triquetra--Melicerta ringens--its powers as brickmaker, architect, and mason--Mode of viewing the Melicerta--Use of glass-cell--Habits of Melicert...
19. CHAPTER VII.Lindia Torulosa--OEcistes Crystallinus--A professor of deportment on stilts--Philodina--Changes of form and habits--Structure of Gizzard in Philodina family--Mr. Gosse's descrip...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Mud coloured by worms--Their retreat at alarm--A country duck-pond--Contents of its scum--Cryptomonads--Their means of locomotion--A Triarthra (three-limbed Rotifer)--The Brachi...
21. CHAPTER IX.Microscopic value of little pools--Curious facts in appearance and disappearance of Animalcules and Rotifers--Mode of preserving them in a glass jar--Fragments of Melicerta tube...
22. CHAPTER X.October, the finest of our autumn months, is noted for usually granting the inhabitants of our dripping climate about twenty pleasant sunshiny days, and it is probably on this a...
23. CHAPTER XI.Characteristics of the Polyzoa--Details of structure according to Allman--Plumatella repens--Its great beauty under proper illumination--Its tentacles and their cilia--The mouth...
24. CHAPTER XII.Microscopic Hunting in Winter--Water-bears, or Tardigrada--Their comical behaviour--Mode of viewing them--Singular gizzard--A compressorium--Achromatic condenser--Mouth of the W...
25. CHAPTER XIII.The creatures described in the preceding pages range from very simple to highly complicated forms, and in describing them some attention has been paid to the general principles...