  | PART I. | | PAGE | | Early History of the Microscope | 1 | | CHAPTER I. | | Light—Its Propagation—Refraction—Spherical and Chromatic Aberration—Human Eye—Formation of Images—Visual Angle—AbbÉ’s Theory of Microscopic Vision—Definition of Aperture—Numerical Aperture—AbbÉ’s Apertometer—Stereoscopic Binocular Vision | 12 | | CHAPTER II. | | Simple and Compound Microscopes—Evolution of the Modern Achromatic Microscope—Improvements in the Modern Microscope: The Ross-Jackson, Powell and Lealand, Beck’s, Baker’s, Pillischer, Zeiss, Leitz, Watson’s, Van Heurck’s Edinburgh Students’, Swift’s, and Bacteriological | 72 | | CHAPTER III. | | Applied Optics—Eye-pieces—Achromatic Objectives and Condensers—Magnifying Power of Eye-pieces and Objectives—Method of Employing the Condenser—Its Illumination Mirror—Accessories of the Microscope—Finders—Micrometers—Camera-Lucida—Microscope in Position for Drawing—AbbÉ’s Test-Plate—Micro-Photography—Polarisation of Light—The Micro-Spectroscope | 139 | | CHAPTER IV. | | Practical Microscopy—Manipulation—Mode of Employing the Microscope—Working Accessories—Methods of Preparing, Hardening, Staining, and Section Cutting—Cutting Hard Structures—Injecting Apparatus, Material, etc., employed in Bacteriological Investigations—Warm Chambers and Incubators—Preparing, Mounting, Cementing, and Collecting Objects | 258 | | PART II. | | CHAPTER I. | | Microscopic Forms of Life—Thallophytes, Pteridophyta, PhanerogamÆ—Structure and Properties of the Cell—Pathogenic Fungi and Moulds—Parasitic Diseases of Plants, Man, and Animals—Industrial Uses of Fungi and Saccharomycetes—DesmidiaceÆ and DiatomaceÆ—Lichens, Mosses, Ferns, Flowering Plants | 353 | | CHAPTER II. | | Sub-Kingdom Protozoa—Rhizopoda—Gromia and Foraminifera—Infusoria—Ciliata—Rotifera—Porifera—Sponges | 478 | | CHAPTER III. | | Zoophytes—Coelenterata—MedusÆ—Corals—Hydrozoa—Mollusca—Annulosa—Worms—Entozoa—Annelida—Crustacea | 515 | | CHAPTER IV. | | Arthropoda—Insecta—Arachnida—Acarina—IxodidÆ—Mites and Ticks | 583 | | CHAPTER V. | | Vertebrata—Internal and External Structures | 633 | | CHAPTER VI. | | The Mineral and Geological Kingdoms | 670 | | APPENDIX. | | Dr. Mercer on Illumination, and AbbÉ’s Theory—Micro-Spectroscope—FormulÆ, Methods, Cementing, Clearing, Hardening, and Mounting—Tables, Metric and Thermometric | 672 | | INDEX | 691 |
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