Microscopic objects, animal, vegetable and mineral: with instructions for preparing and viewing them / [Anon].

  • Pritchard, Andrew, 1804-1882.
Date:
1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Microscopic objects, animal, vegetable and mineral: with instructions for preparing and viewing them / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vl. } PREFACE. knowledge, and to supply, from actual experience, information and directions that shall render the Microscope instructive as well as amusing. The only original works similar to the present are Baker’s ‘‘Hm- ployment for the Microscope,’’ which work modern improvements have rendered obsolete, and Pritchard’s ‘‘ Microscopic Cabinet,’’ and his “ List of 2000 Objects, with Remarks ;” both of which are out of print. From the two latter works copious extracts have been made; and indeed wherever the source of a passage marked with inverted commas is not given, the reader may consider it as taken from one or other of them. The original matter, including the directions for preparing and mounting microscopic objects, is the result of the writer’s own experience, and for it he does not stand indebted to any other source, private or public. He believes that it will be found of practical value to all who desire to use the Microscope efficiently. The instructions for preparing some of the more difficult subjects—as thin sections of fossils, &c.—may not in some cases be needed, as a single specimen is sufficient, and can be obtained from a respectable optician at a trifling cost—much less, indeed, than the price of the tools which would be required to prepare it. This latter circumstance, added to the facility with which the objects in question can, for a few pence, be conveyed by post to the most distant parts of the British Islands, is well deserving of the notice of those who wish to make a good use of their Microscopes. The