LIST OF THE PLATES, WITH REFERENCES TO THE PAGES WHERE THE SEVERAL FIGURES ARE DESCRIBED.
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I. Various diagrams illustrative of vision and the optical effect of microscopes 29
II. A. Ibid.—Needle micrometer, 54.—Coventry’s pearl, &c. micrometers 59
B. Fig. 1. Wilson’s microscope and apparatus, 115.—Fig. 2. Ditto with a scroll 117
Fig. 3, 4. Small opake microscope and apparatus 118
III. Fig. 1, 2, and 4. Adams’s lucernal microscope and apparatus 64
Fig. 3. Argand’s patent lamp 69
IV. Fig. 1. Jones’s improved compound microscope and apparatus 92
Fig. 2. Jones’s most improved ditto, ditto 99
Fig. 3. Culpeper’s three-pillared microscope and apparatus 104
V. Martin’s improved solar opake and transparent microscope 106
VI. Fig. I. Withering’s botanical microscope, 123.—Fig. 2. Pocket botanical and universal microscope 124
Fig. 3. Lyonet’s anatomical microscope 122
Fig. 4. Transparent solar microscope and apparatus 113
Fig. 5. Tooth and pinion microscope ibid.
Fig. 14. Common flower and insect microscope note 125
VII. A. Cuff’s double constructed microscope and apparatus 89
B. Ellis’s aquatic microscope 119
VIII. Fig. 1-6. Portable microscope and telescope with apparatus 125
Fig. 7, 8. Botanical magnifiers ibid.
IX. Fig. 1, 2. Engine for cutting sections of wood, and appendage 127
Fig. 3, 4. Jones’s improved lucernal microscope and apparatus 80
Fig. 5, 7. The Rev. Dr. Prince’s and Mr. Hill’s improvements on the illuminating lenses and lamp of the lucernal microscope 84
Fig. 6. Lanthorn microscope and screen 88
X. Fig. 1, 2. Nest of the phalæna neustria.—Fig. 3, 4. Vertical section of ditto.
Fig. 5, 6. Horizontal section 287
Fig. 7, 8. Scales of the parrot fish, 355.—Fig. 9, 10. Scales of sea perch 356
XI. Fig. 1, 2, 3. Larva of the musca chamæleon 248
Fig. 4, 5. Eels in blighted wheat 469
Fig. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11. Paste eel 462
Fig. 7. Vinegar eel 461
XII. Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4. Dissection of the caterpillar of the phalæna cossus 336
Fig. 5, 6, 7. Dissection of the head of the caterpillar 337
XIII. Fig. 1, 2. Beard of the lepas anatifera 344
Fig. 3, 4. Collector of the bee 182
XIV. Fig. 1, 2. Wing of the forficula auricularia 143 and 205
Fig. 2 to 47. Magnified figures of minute and rare shells 629
XV. Fig. 1, 2. Wing of the hemerobius perla 206
Fig. 1 to 46. Microscopic views of a variety of vegetable seeds 645
XVI. Fig. 1, 2, and B, C, D, E. Proboscis of the tabanus 188
Fig. 3, 4. Cornea of the libellula 197
Fig. 5, 6. Cornea of the lobster ibid.
Fig. 7, 8, E, F, H, I. Feathers of the wings of the sphinx stellatarum 208 and 627
XVII. Fig. 1, 2, 3. Leucopsis dorsigera 347
XVIII. Fig. 1 and 6. The lobster insect 348
Fig. 2 and 7. Skin of the lump-sucker 352
Fig. 3, 4, 5. Thrips physapus 350
XIX. Fig. 1-4. Feet of the monoculus apus 354
Fig. 5 and 6. Skin of the sole fish.—Fig. 7, 8. Scale of the haddock.—Fig. 9, 10. Scale of West Indian perch.—Fig. 11, 12. Scale of sole fish 356
XX. Fig. 1 and A. Cimex striatus, 352.—Fig. 2 and B. Chrysomela asparagi 353
Fig. 3 and C. Meloe monoceros 354
XXI. Fig. 1-24. Various hydræ and vorticellæ 364
XXII. Fig. 26-40. Ditto 392
XXIII. A. Fig. 1-13. Various hydræ, 365. B. Fig. 14-29. Ditto 382
XXIV. A. Fig. 1-10. and B. Fig. 11-24. Ditto 376
XXV. Fig. 1-68. A variety of animalcula infusoria 431
XXVI. Fig. 1-23. Ditto 548
XXVII. Fig. 1-66. Ditto 519
XXVIII. Fig. 1, 2. Transverse section of chenopodium 599
Fig. 3, 4. Transverse section of a reed from Portugal ibid.
XXIX. Fig. 1, 2. Transverse section of althæa frutex ibid.
Fig. 3, 4. Transverse section of hazel ibid.
Fig. 5, 6. Transverse section branch of lime tree ibid.
XXX. Fig. 1, 2. Transverse section of sugarcane. ibid.
Fig. 3, 4. Transverse section of bamboo cane ibid.
Fig. 5, 6. Transverse section of common cane ibid.
XXXI. Fig. 1, 2. Crystals of nitre 606
Fig. 3, 4. Distilled verdigrise ibid.
XXXII. Fig. 1. Microscopical crystals of salt of wormwood 607
Fig. 2. Microscopical crystals of salt of amber ibid.
Fig. 3. Microscopical crystals of salt of hartshorn ibid.
Fig. 4. Microscopical crystals of salt of sal ammoniac ibid.
N. B. The reader will find no references to the several letters which appear in the bodies of these figures, for reasons assigned by the author as above; in order not to deface the plate, they were suffered to remain.
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