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... Canada balsam , a few needles mounted in wooden handles , some slides and cov- ers , and a few simple articles that are sure to be at hand , any specimen whatever can be mounted in five minutes , or at least so preserved on a slide ...
... Canada balsam , a few needles mounted in wooden handles , some slides and cov- ers , and a few simple articles that are sure to be at hand , any specimen whatever can be mounted in five minutes , or at least so preserved on a slide ...
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glass with shellac , it is sometimes done with hard Canada balsam dis- solved in benzole . This is an excel- lent plan when the preservative fluid is water or an aqueous solution of some chemical substance . However , usually shellac ...
glass with shellac , it is sometimes done with hard Canada balsam dis- solved in benzole . This is an excel- lent plan when the preservative fluid is water or an aqueous solution of some chemical substance . However , usually shellac ...
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... balsam . Thin specimens , or those which come to pieces when the paraffine is removed , like thin sections of liver ... Canada - balsam in xylol to its edge . The xylol may be used instead of benzine but it is more expensive . This ...
... balsam . Thin specimens , or those which come to pieces when the paraffine is removed , like thin sections of liver ... Canada - balsam in xylol to its edge . The xylol may be used instead of benzine but it is more expensive . This ...
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... Canada balsam , but the image leads me to think a compara- tively short exposure will suffice . To photograph an object which is yellowish or red , although the form of the object would be quickly im- pressed upon the plate , to obtain ...
... Canada balsam , but the image leads me to think a compara- tively short exposure will suffice . To photograph an object which is yellowish or red , although the form of the object would be quickly im- pressed upon the plate , to obtain ...
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... Canada balsam was most com- monly used for this purpose , particu- larly for diatoms . Mr. Stephenson , however , pointed out that although by the use of the balsam we have attained our object so far as the aperture is concerned , yet ...
... Canada balsam was most com- monly used for this purpose , particu- larly for diatoms . Mr. Stephenson , however , pointed out that although by the use of the balsam we have attained our object so far as the aperture is concerned , yet ...
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Page 118 - Ann, and is about three and a-half miles by coach from the Eastern Railroad Company's station in Gloucester. The purpose of this Laboratory is to afford opportunities for the study and observation of the development, anatomy and habits of common types of marine animals under suitable direction and advice. There will...
Page 145 - ... the protoplasm, when its life is gone. Professor Huxley writes concerning protoplasm thus : — " The properties of living matter distinguish it absolutely from all other kinds of things ; and," he continues, " the present state of our knowledge furnishes us with no link between the living and the not living.
Page 146 - ... protoplasm should once have appeared on the globe, as the result of no matter what agency ; in the eyes of a consistent evolutionist any further independent formation of protoplasm would be sheer waste.
Page 166 - ... have no personal ends to serve in an inquiry in which I happen to be a personal factor. Let us then have a test which will forever set at rest this vexed question of resolution. I submit for your consideration the following outline of a test which I venture to think will be sufficient and conclusive: Let Mr. Fasoldt rule three plates under as nearly the same conditions as possible, except in the number of lines in the different bands of each plate. Let him label each plate and accompany it with...
Page 118 - Aerial disinfection, as commonly practised in the sick-room, is either useless or positively objectionable, owing to the false sense of security it is calculated to produce. To make the air of a room smell strongly of carbolic acid by scattering carbolic powder about the floor, or of chlorine, ,by placing a tray of chloride of lime in a corner, is, so far as the destruction of specific contagia is concerned, an utterly futile proceeding.
Page 167 - I observed in the contents a few well defined orange spores, but none of them appeared to have germinated. Fastened between the hairs on the limbs of each of the flies examined I found a number of the spores, and the efforts of the fly to get rid of them only resulted in attaching them more firmly to it. They might, however, be brushed off by objects with which they were brought in contact, while their germinating powers would long outlast the life of the insect itself. It was evident from this experiment...
Page 35 - In such cases as these, external conditions act upon the larvae as they do upon the mature form; hence we have two classes of changes, adaptational or adaptive, and developmental. These and many other facts must be taken into consideration; nevertheless naturalists are now generally agreed that embryological characters are of high value as guides in classification, and it may, I think, be regarded as wellestablished that, just as the contents and sequence of rocks teach us the past history of the...
Page 220 - A bibliography of the Microscope and Micrographic Studies, being a catalogue of books and papers in the library of Julien Deby.
Page 191 - Thus, a mite of a wheel animalcule, l-100th of an inch long, will perhaps appear to be a foot off, and as large as a mouse ; but bring the prisms nearer together, and tilt the oculars to correspond, and the image waxes marvellously immense, and taking a position perhaps apparently more than a hundred feet distant, the being, too small to be seen with...