An outline of the natural history of our shores / by Joseph Sinel with chapters on collecting and preserving marine specimens, methods of microscopic mounting, etc., and on the marine aquarium.

  • Sinel, Joseph, 1890-1975.
Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An outline of the natural history of our shores / by Joseph Sinel with chapters on collecting and preserving marine specimens, methods of microscopic mounting, etc., and on the marine aquarium. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lightest portion on to the paper, then collect, and pour into any suitable receptacle. The surface of the sand may also be scraped to the same end, but this plan takes up an unnecessary quantity of sand. The gathering when brought home must be thoroughly Fig. 2. — Mixed Foraminifera. Photo-micrograph—about 20 diameters dried on the stove or before the fire, and then when quite cold, not before, it must be tipped, a spoonful at a time, into a basin of cold water, and well stirred with the spoon. The stirring must be considerable, or little bells of air will adhere to sand grains, and cause these to float as well as the little hollow shells we desire. However, the sand will sink and the air-charged shells will float. Now collect and