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HOW TO USE THE MICROSCOPE.
A Simple and Practical Book, intended for beginners.
By JOHN PHIN,
Editor of “The American Journal of Microscopy.”
Second Edition. Greatly Enlarged, with 50 illustrations in the text,
and 4 full-page engravings printed on heavy tint paper.
CONTENTS:
What a Microscope is.—Different Kinds of Microscopes.—Simple Microscopes.—Hand Magnifiers.—The Coddington Lens.—The Stanhope Lens.—Raspail’s Microscope.—The Excelsior Microscope.—Twenty-five cent Microscopes and how to make them.—Penny Microscopes.
Compound Microscopes.—Different kinds of Objectives.—Non-Achromatic Objectives.—French Achromatic Objectives.—Objectives of the English Form.—Immersion Objectives.—Focal Lengths corresponding to the numbers employed by Nachet, Hartnack and Gundlach.
How to Choose a Microscope.—Microscopes for Special Purposes.—Magnifying Power required for different purposes.—How to judge of the quality of the different parts of the Microscope.
Accessory Apparatus.—Stage Forceps, Animalcule Cage, etc.
Illumination.—Sun Light.—Artificial Light.—Bulls-Eye Condenser.—Side Reflector.—The Lieberkuhn.—Axial Light.—Oblique Light.—Direct Light.
How to Use the Microscope.—How to Care for the Microscope.
How to Collect Objects.—Where to find Objects.—What to Look for.—How to Capture Them.—Nets.—Bottle-Holders.—Spoons.—New Form of Collecting Bottle.—Aquaria for Microscopic Objects.—Dipping Tubes.
The Preparation and Examination of Objects.—Cutting Thin Sections of Soft Substances.—Sections of Wood and Bone.—Improved Section-Cutter.—Sections of Rock.—Knives.—Scissors.—Needles.—Dissecting Pans and Dishes.—Dissecting Microscopes.—Separation of Deposits from Liquids.—Preparing whole Insects.—Feet, Eyes, Tongues, Wings, etc., of Insects.—Use of Chemical Tests.—Liquids for Moistening Objects.—Refractive Power of Liquids.—Covers for Keeping out Dust.—Errors in Microscopical Observations.
Preservation of Objects.—General Principles.—Recipes for Preservative Fluids.—General Rules for Applying them.
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THE CHEMICAL HISTORY
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THE AMERICAN
Journal of Microscopy,
AND
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The object of the Journal of Microscopy is to diffuse a knowledge of the best methods of using the Microscope; of all valuable improvements in the instrument and its accessories; of all new methods of microscopical investigation, and of the most recent results of microscopical research. The Journal does not address itself to those who have long pursued certain special lines of research, and whose wants can be supplied only by elaborate papers, which, from their thoroughness, are entitled to be called monographs rather than mere articles. It is intended rather to meet the wants of those who use the microscope for purposes of general study, medical work, class instruction, and even amusement, and who desire, in addition to the information afforded by text-books, such a knowledge of what others are doing as can be derived only from a periodical. With this object in view, therefore, the publishers propose to make the Journal so simple, practical and trustworthy, that it will prove to the advantage of every one who uses the microscope at all to take it.
ILLUSTRATIONS.—The Journal will be freely illustrated by engravings representing either objects of natural history or apparatus connected with the microscope.
TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES.—The American Journal of Microscopy is not the organ of any Society, but it gives the proceedings of all Societies whose officers send us a report. As the Journal is devoted wholly to Microscopy, and is in good form and size for binding, no better medium can be had for preserving the scientific records of any society. Matters of mere business routine we are frequently obliged to omit for want of room.
EXCHANGES.—An important feature of the Journal is the exchange column, by means of which workers in different parts of the country are enabled, without expense, except for postage, to exchange slides and materials with each other.
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- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling was made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise it was not changed.
- Forms of the name SchÄfer were regularized to match the title page of his “A Course of Practical Histology.”
