Part 2 — INDEX.
Reading edition
Abbé on microscopical vision, 37
Abbé’s apertometer, 59
—— condenser, 176
—— stereoscopic eye-pieces, 64
—— test-plate, 164
Aberration, chromatic, 25
—— of the eye, chromatic, 33
—— spherical, 23
Abraxas grossulariata, 598
Absolute alcohol as a hardening reagent, 287
Acaras domesticus, 625
Accessories of the microscope, 197
Achromatic condenser, Beck’s, 180
—— —— Gillett’s, 173
—— —— method of using, 190
—— —— Powell’s, 178
—— —— Ross’s, 176
—— —— Smith & Beck’s, 173
—— —— Watson’s, 177
Achromatic objective, the, 152
Acineta, 495
Actiniæ, 527
Actinophrys-sol, 489
Adams’s book on the microscope, 8
Adipose tissue, 644
Ædogoniaceæ, 409
Aerobic spores, 399
Agar-agar, to prepare nutrient, 330
Air bubbles, 348
Alcyonella, 534
Algæ, 399
—— media for preserving, 343
—— red, 413
Alvarez’s discovery of bacillus, 392
Amici prism, the, 190
Amœba, 480
Amphibian changes, 669
Amphistoma, 570
Amyot finder, the, 205
Anacharis alsinastrum, 419
Anemones, sea, 526
Angle of vision, 72
Anguillula, 567
Animal structures, staining, 292
Annulosa, 562
Antennæ of insects, 584
Antenna of silkworm moth, 605
Anthrax bacillus, 369
Anthrozoa, 523
Apertometer, Abbé’s, 59
Aperture, definition of, 45
—— measurement of, 57
—— numerical, 57
—— table, 58
Aphides, 587
Aphrophora bifasciata, 618
Apis mellifica, 598
Aplysiidæ, 549
—— dipilans, 549
Apparatus for mounting, 352
Appendices, 673
Arachnidæ, 618
Aragonite, 232
Arcella, 483
Arenicola, 577
Argyroneta aquatica, 621
Artemiæ, 581
Arteries, 622
Artery-needle, 303
Arthropoda, 583
Arthrospores, 366
Ascidian, 669
Astroides calyculcaris, 529
Babè’s method of staining bacteria, 334
Bacillus, anthrax, 369
—— of plague, 372
—— —— in rat’s blood, 372
—— splenic fever, 369
—— typhoid, 370
Bacteria, 317
—— aerobic, 399
—— classification of, 373
—— Cohn on multiplication of, 367
—— cultivation of, 327
—— —— in tubes, 331
—— —— on plates, 331
—— faculties of, 373
—— in butter, 393
—— in cheese, 393
—— in milk, 393
—— in sections of tissue, 337
—— invasion of potato-tubers by, 398
—— microscopical examination of, 333
—— phosphorescent, 373
—— reproduction of, 365
—— size of, 365
—— staining, 334
—— Winogradsky’s investigations of, 398
Bacterial action in tanning skins, 393
—— fermentations, 391
Bacteriological investigations, apparatus for, 318
—— —— mounting media, 320
—— —— reagents used, 320
—— microscope, the, 135
Bacteriology of the dairy, 393
Baker’s advanced student’s microscope, 123
—— collecting stick, 350
—— histological microscope, 125
—— micro-photographic apparatus, 217
—— microscope lamp, 191
—— microscopes, 120
—— Nelson condenser, 184
—— —— model microscope, 120
—— objectives, 168
—— student’s condenser, 184
Baird, Dr., on daphnia, 581
Barnacle, 539
Bartley’s warm-stage, 281
Batrachospermæ, 409
Beck’s binocular dissecting microscope, 101
—— —— National microscope, 99
—— complete microscope lamp, 202
—— compressor, 275
—— disc-holder, 198
—— large Continental model microscope, 98
—— microscopes, 95
—— objectives, 167
—— pathological microscope, 95
—— Star microscope, 101
Beggiatoa, 400
Benjamin Martin’s microscope, 5
Beroidæ, 519
Biaxial crystals, 228
Bilharzia hæmatobra, 573
Binocular microscope, advantage of, 69
—— —— Carpenter on, 69
—— —— Nachet’s, 62
—— —— Pillischer’s, 128
—— —— Riddell’s, 62
—— —— Stephenson’s erecting, 71
—— —— Wenham’s, 65
—— vision, 60
Bismarck-brown for staining protoplasm, 306
Bivalves, 538
Bleaching process, 315
Blood as a test, 263
—— circulation of, in frog’s foot, 665
—— —— —— tadpole, 665
—— corpuscles, 638
—— —— double staining, 295
—— —— size of, 640
—— crystals, 641
—— spectrum, 252
Bombay plague, 371
Bone, 658
—— of fish, 661
—— of reptilia, 660
—— structure of, 659
Borax, 231
Boring sponges, 513
Botterill’s live-trough, 276
Brachiopoda, 538
Branchipodidæ, 580
Brewster’s microscope, 11
Brittleworts, 427
Browning-Huggins micro-spectroscope, 245
Browning’s pocket lens, 76
Bryophyta, 444
Bryozoa, 531
Buchner’s experiments on yeast, 389
Bull’s-eye condensing-lens, 199
Butter, bacteria in, 393
Butterfly’s tongue, 605
—— wings, 610
Calc-spar, 231
Cambridge rocking microtome, 290
Camera lucida, the, 207
—— —— the Abbé, 208
—— —— the Wollaston, 207
—— Swift’s horizontal, 213
Canada balsam, 293
Carbonate of lead, 232
Carmine as a nuclear stain, 312
Cartilage, 655
Catheart’s freezing microtome, 291
Cedar oil, use of, 171
Cell, definition of, 358
Cell-making turn-table, Walmsley’s 340
Cells, epithelial, 636
—— for living objects, 276
—— for mounting, 340
—— live, 277
Cellulose, 357
—— staining, 314
Cements, 347
—— list of, 676
Centipedes, 578
Cercariæ, 571
Cereal parasites, 381
Chætophoraceæ, 409
Chara, fructification of, 417
—— mounting, 347
—— vulgaris, 415
Characeæ, 415
Cheese, bacteria in, 393
—— mite, 625
Chilinidæ, 551
Chitonidæ, 545
Chloride of gold as stain, 297
—— of palladium as stain, 298
Chromatic aberration, 25
—— —— of the eye, 33
Chromic acid as hardening reagent, 288
Ciliata, 498
Circulation of the blood, 665
Cistula catenata, 558
Cladocera, 580
Clavatella prolifera, 521
Clearing agents, list of, 676
Clepsinidæ, 576
Clionæ, 513
Closterium, 424
—— lunula, 425
Cnidaria, 519
Cockchafer’s eye, 590
Coddington lens, the, 76
Codosiga, 497
Cœlenterata, 515
Cohn on multiplication of bacteria, 367
Cole’s direction for section cutting, 285
—— section-cutting microtome, 289
Collecting stick, Baker’s, 350
Collection of objects, 349
Compound microscope, 78
Compressor, Beck’s, 275
Compressorium, 274
—— Ross’s, 275
—— Rousselet’s, 275
Concave lenses, 23
—— surfaces, 17
Condenser, Abbé’s, 176
—— Baker’s Nelson, 184
—— —— student’s, 184
—— Beck’s achromatic, 180
—— Gillett’s achromatic, 173
—— method of using, 190
—— Powell’s achromatic, 178
—— Ross’s achromatic, 176
—— Smith & Beck’s achromatic, 173
—— —— substage, 193
Condenser, Swift’s, 183
—— Watson’s achromatic, 177
—— —— parachromatic, 182
—— Webster-Collins, 186
—— Wenham’s immersion, 189
—— —— parabolic, 186
Confervaceæ, 408
Conjugate foci, 17
—— real and virtual, 21
Continental microscopes, 130
Contrast stains, 313
Convex lens, 18
Copepoda, 580
Corals, 515, 525
—— true, 528
—— typical forms of, 533
Correction collar, Lister’s, 155
Coryne stauridia, 534
Cotton fibres, 474
Cover glass gauge, Zeiss’s, 165
Crinoids, 542
Critical angle, 14
Crookshank’s incubator, 324
—— method of staining bacteria, 335
Crustaceæ, 578
Crystals, formation and polarisation of, 239
Ctenophora, 518
Cuckoo-spit, 618
Culex pipiens, 596
Cultivation of bacteria, 327
—— of micro-organisms, 327
Cutleria dichotoma, 413
Cutting sections of hard woods, 316
Cuttle-fish, 556
Cyclops, 580
Cyclosis, phenomenon of, 359
Cyclostomata, 537
Cyclotus translucidus, 558
Cydippidæ, 518
Cymba olla, 557
Cymothordæ, 580
Dairy, bacteriology of, 393
Daphnia, enemies of, 581
—— ephippial eggs of, 580
Daphnia pulex, 580
De Bary’s investigations in parasitism, 395
Decalcifying and bleaching agents, list of, 677
Decalcifying solution as hardening reagent, 288
Demodex folliculorum, 627
Dental structure, 652
Dermestes lardarius, 627
Dermis, the human, 647
Desmidiaceæ, 420
—— reproduction of, 423
Diamond microscope, Pritchard’s, 9
Diaphragm, the, 194
—— the iris, 176
Diatomaceæ, 420, 427
—— fossilised, 437
—— Max Schultze’s researches, 430
—— where found, 428
Diatoms, mounting medium, 343
—— movements of, 431
Didymoprium grevelli, 420
Difflugia, 482
Digestive system of insects, 587
Dipping-tubes, 279
Disc-holder, Beck’s, 198
Dissecting-knives, 284
Dog-tick, 624
Double convex lens, 19
Draparnaldia glomerata, 409
Draw-tube, Swift’s, 116
—— Watson’s, 104
Drone fly, 594
Dytiscus marginalis, 607
Echinococcus, 565
Echinodermata, 539
Eggs of insects, 612
Elementary optics, 12
Embedding fluids, list of, 678
—— in paraffin wax, 285
Entomological specimens, mounting, 341
Entozoa, 562
Eosin stain, 315
Eozoon, 492
Epeira diadema, 619
Epidermis of plants, 455
Epithelial cells, 636
Epithelium, mounting, 295
Equisetaceæ, 449
Ergot of rye, 382
Eristalis tenax, 594
Erysiphe Tuckeri, 380
Eudorina, 406
Euglypta, 482
Eurotium repens, 383
Exposure table for photo-micrography, 213
Eye, chromatic aberration of the, 33
—— of cockchafer, 590
—— of fly, 588
—— of whirligig beetle, 608
—— the human, 30
Eye-piece, Abbé’s stereoscopic, 64
—— compensating, 147
—— —— Zeiss’s, 147
—— Huyghenian, 139
—— Jackson’s micrometer, 143
—— Ramsden, 142
—— —— micrometer, 145
—— Ross’s, 68
—— Wenham’s double, 63
—— Zeiss’s, 147
Eye-pieces, 139
—— achromatic, 149
—— magnifying powers of, 169
—— projections, 150
—— to clean, 259
Eyes of insects, 584
Favellidium, 415
Feet of insects, observation of, 604
Felices, 446
Fermentation experiments, 361
Fermentations, bacterial, 391
Ferns, 446
—— development of, 446
Fibro-cartilage, 657
Fibrous tissue, 642
—— —— mounting, 296
Filaria sanguinis hominis, 568
Finder, the, 204
—— the Amyot, 205
—— the Maltwood, 204
—— the Okeden, 205
—— Pantacsek’s, 205
Fission formation, 365
Fixing solutions, list of, 678
Flabellum, 528
Flagella, staining of, 336
Flagellate infusoria, 495
Flatness of field, 262
Flax, fibres of, 474
Flea, 629
Florideæ, 413
Flowering plants, 451
Fluke, the, 569
Flustra, 532
Fly, eye of, 588
—— foot of, 602
Focal length of lenses, 22
Focus, method of finding, 271
Foot of fly, 602
Foraminifera, 483
Forceps, 283
—— for mounting, 294
—— stage, 198
Formation and polarisation of crystals, 239
Fossil plants, 475
Fossilised diatomaceæ, 438
Freezing agents, list of, 678
—— microtome, Cathcart’s, 291
—— —— directions for using, 291
Frog-bit, 418
—— plate, 277
Froth-fly, 618
Fungi, industrial uses of, 391
Fungoid diseases, 374
Fungus on plants, 376
—— root, benefit to trees from, 396
—— sewage, 400
—— where found, 379
Gall-fly, 596
Gapeworm, 572
Gelatine, to prepare nutrient, 328
German yeast, 388
Gillett’s achromatic condenser, 173
Globigerina, 486
Glycerine agar-agar, 330
—— jelly, to make, 297
Gnat, 596
Gnathia, 579
Goniometer, Dr. Leeson’s, 150
Gorgoniidæ, 530
Gosse on noctiluca, 496
Gram’s method of staining bacteria, 335, 338
Grant’s researches on sponges, 507
Gregarinæ, 482, 563
Gromia, 484
Grove’s recommendations for mounting, 299
Gyrinus, eye of, 608
—— leg of, 608
Hæmatoxylin stain, 312
Hairs, structure of, 648
Haliotis splendens, 559
—— tuberculatus, 557
Hansen’s investigations of yeast, 387
Hard structures, mounting, 307
—— woods, cutting sections of, 316
Hardening agents, list of, 677
—— —— absolute alcohol, 287
—— —— chromic acid as, 288
—— —— decalcifying solution as, 288
—— —— methylated spirit as, 288
—— —— Muller’s fluid as, 288
—— —— potassium bichromate, 288
Hardening reagents, 287
—— tissue, 283
Hartea elegans, 535
Heliozoa, 489
Helix absoluta, 558
—— pomatia, 558
Hepaticæ, 442
Hexactinia, 526
Hirudina medicinalis, 576
Hirudinidæ, 575
His’s method of staining bacteria, 334
Holland’s simple microscope, 75
Holman’s life slide, 277
—— moist chamber, 277
—— syphon slide, 278
Holothurioidea, 543
Honey bee, 598
Horse-tails, 449
House fly, eye of, 588
—— proboscis of, 591
—— tongue of, 592
Human eye, the, 30
—— hair as a test, 269
Huyghenian eye-piece, 139
Hydra, 516
—— fasca, 516
—— stinging, 519
—— viridis, 516
Hydractinia echinata, 523
Hydroid polyps, colony of, 537
Hydrozoa, 515
Ianthinidæ, 550
Iceland spar, 221
Illumination arrangements of the microscope, 673
—— Mercer on, 673
Incubation, apparatus for, 322
—— test for, 263
Incubator, Crookshank’s, 324
Incubators, 324
Indigo plant, 392
Infusoria, 493
Infusorial life, 349
Injecting, directions for, 304
—— insects, 306
—— lower animals, 305
—— mollusca, 305
—— small animal bodies, 302
—— —— —— —— syringe for, 302
—— with different colours, 304
Injections, to prepare, 303
—— —— subjects for, 303
Injurious insects, 632
Insects, 578, 583
—— antennæ of, 584
—— digestive systems, 586
—— distinctive character of, 583
—— eggs of, 612
—— eyes of, 584
—— injecting, 306
—— injurious, 632
—— mouths of, 584
—— muscles of, 585
—— reproduction of, 587
—— respiratory system of, 607
—— thorax of, 585
—— wings of, 609
Interpretation, errors of, 263
Iris diaphragm, 176
Isthmia enervis, 436
Ixodidæ, 622
Ixodes ricinus, 624
Jackson’s micrometer eye-piece, 143
Jelly-fish, 519, 523
Jungermannia, 442
Koch’s method of staining flagella, 336
Lamp, Baker’s microscope, 191
—— Beck’s complete microscope, 202
—— shells, 539
—— the microscope, 201
—— Watson’s microscope, 203
Lard, embedding in, 285
Larvæ of sea-anemones, 529
Lathe for cutting sections of teeth, 308
Laticiferous tissues, 466
Leaf tissue, 466
Leeson’s goniometer, 150
Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, 4
Leitz’s dissecting microscope, 132
—— microscopes, 132
Lens, bull’s-eye condensing, 199
—— Steinheil’s aplanatic, 77
—— the Coddington, 76
Lenses, concave, 23
—— convex, 18
—— double convex, 19
—— focal length of, 22
—— forms of, 18
—— meniscus form of, 24
—— optical centre of, 20
—— plano-convex, 19
Lepas, 539
Lepisma saccharina, 612
—— scales of, as test, 264
Leptothrix buccalis, 400
Lichenaceæ, 439
Lichens, 439
—— erratic, 441
Lieberkühn’s microscope, 4
Lieberkühn, the, 198
Light, polarisation of, 219
Limax maximus, 558
—— rufus, 558
Limnæan, teeth of, 554
Limnæidæ, 551
Limnæus stagnalis, 551
Lingula pyramidata, 538
Lingulidæ, 538
List of salts, 240
Lister’s correction collar, 155
—— flasks, 322
—— microscope, 81
—— object glass, 154
Live-cages, 274
Live-cells, 277
Live-trough, Botterill’s, 276
Liverworts, 442
Lobosa, 482
Löffler’s method of staining flagella, 336
Logwood, staining by, 293
Lophopus crystallinus, 535
Lyda campestris, 598
Lymph corpuscles, 638
Maddox growing stage, the, 280
Magnifying powers of eye-pieces and objectives, 169
Maltwood finder, the, 204
Maple aphis, 617
Mapping spectra, 253
Marchantia polymorphia, 442
Martin’s microscope, 5
Marzoni’s objective, 152
Mayall’s illuminator, 184
—— mechanical stage, 124
Medusæ, 515, 521
—— a colony of budding, 537
Melicerta ringens, 505
Melolontha vulgans, eye of, 590
Meniscus form of lens, 24
Mercer on illumination, 673
Mesoglæa, 525
Mesoglia vermicularis, 410
Methylated spirit as hardening reagent, 288
Metric system of weights and measures, 687
Micrometer, Ramsden’s, 145, 206
—— the stage, 206
Micrometers, 205
Micro-organisms, 373
—— cultivation of, 327
Micro-photography, 210, 674
—— Baker’s apparatus for, 217
—— exposure table, 213
—— Pringle’s apparatus, 217
—— rules for, 214
—— Stringer-Watson’s apparatus for, 674
—— Swift’s apparatus for, 213
Microscope, accessories of the, 197
—— Baker’s advanced student’s, 123
—— —— histological, 125
—— —— Nelson model, 120
—— Beck’s binocular dissecting, 101
—— —— —— National, 99
—— —— large Continental model, 98
—— —— pathological, 95
—— —— Star, 101
—— binocular, Pillischer’s, 128
—— —— Wenham’s, 65
—— Carpenter on binocular, 69
—— compound, 78
—— early history of, 1
—— Holland’s simple, 75
—— Hooke’s water, 2
—— illumination arrangements of the, 673
—— invention of, 2
—— lamp, the, 201
—— —— Baker’s, 191
—— —— Beck’s, 202
—— —— Watson’s, 203
—— Leitz’s dissecting, 132
—— Leeuwenhoek’s, 4
—— Lieberkühn’s, 4
—— Lister’s, 81
—— manipulation and mode of using the, 258
—— Martin’s, 5
—— Nachet’s, 133
—— —— binocular, 62
—— Pillischer’s binocular, 128
—— —— International, 126
—— Pillischer’s “Kosmos,” 128
—— Powell & Lealand’s, 85
—— —— student’s, 88
—— Pritchard’s diamond, 9
—— Riddell’s binocular, 62
—— Ross’s “Eclipse,” 89
—— —— New Industrial, 90
—— Ross-Jackson, 82
—— Ross-Jackson-Zentmayer, 83
—— Ross-Zentmayer, 91
—— Rousselet’s tank, 126
—— simple, 30, 72, 77
—— simple pocket, 73
—— Sir David Brewster’s, 11
—— Stephenson’s erecting binocular, 71
—— Swift’s advanced student’s, 118
—— —— bacteriological, 116
—— —— four-legged, 114
—— —— histological student’s, 116
—— the bacteriological, 135
—— Watson’s bacteriological, 108
—— —— Edinburgh student’s, 102
—— —— histological, 107
—— —— petrological, 111
—— —— portable, 110
—— —— Van Heurck’s, 108
—— Wenham’s binocular, 65
—— —— radial, 90
—— Wollaston’s simple, 74
—— Zeiss’s, 130
Microscopes, Baker’s, 120
—— Beck’s, 95
—— Continental, 130
—— Leitz’s, 132
—— Pillischer’s, 126
—— Ross’s, 88
—— Swift’s, 113
—— Watson’s, 102
Microscopic forms of life, 353
—— vision, principles of, 45
—— —— theory of, 37
Micro-spectroscope, the, 243
Micro-spectroscopic eye-piece, the Sorby-Browning, 247
—— method of using, 250
—— the Browning-Huggins, 245
Microtome, Cambridge rocking, 290
—— Cathcart’s freezing, 291
—— Cole’s section-cutting, 289
—— method of using, 289
Milk, bacteria in, 393
Millipedes, 578
Mineral and geological kingdoms, 670
Mirror, manipulation of, 260
—— the, 195
Mite, cheese, 625
Mites and ticks, 622
Moist stage, 280
Molecular rotation, 238
Mollusca, 545
—— injecting, 305
—— shell of, 558
Monads in rat’s blood, 372
Monoxenia, 523
Moss-animals, 531
Mosses, 443
Moulds, 380, 381
Mounting apparatus, 352
—— cells for, 340
—— chara, 347
—— entomological specimens, 341
—— epithelium, 295
—— fibrous tissue, 296
—— forceps, 294
—— hard structures, 307
—— media, list of, 678
—— nerve tissue, 296
—— non-striated muscle, 296
—— objects, materials required, 339
—— rock sections, 309
—— spring clip for, 296, 342
—— teeth sections, 308
—— vegetable tissues, 310
Mouse, hair of, 650
Mouth, leptothrix, 400
Mouths of insects, 584
Müller’s fluid, a hardening reagent, 288
Musca domestica, 588
Musci, 443
Muscidæ, 588
Muscles of insects, 585
Muscular fibre, 644
—— —— mounting, 296
Mycetoma, 378
Mycetozoa, 482
Mycorhiza, 396
Nachet’s binocular microscope, 62
Nails, structure of, 648
Navicula, 427
Neckera antiphyretica, 445
Needles for teasing out sections, 286
Nematoid worms, 556
Nerve tissue, mounting, 296
Nicol prism, 220
Nitella, 418
Nitrate of silver as stain, 297, 298
Noctiluca, 496
Non-striated muscle, mounting, 296
Nose-pieces, 203
Nuclear stains, 311
—— —— carmine, 312
—— —— hæmatoxylin, 312
Nudibranchiata, 547
Nutrient agar-agar, to prepare, 330
—— gelatine, to prepare, 328
—— jelly, to inoculate with bacteria, 331
Object glass, Lister’s, 154
—— to clean, 260
Objective, achromatic, 152
—— changers, 203
—— Powell & Lealand’s oil immersion, 166
Objectives, Baker’s, 168
—— Beck’s, 167
—— English and German, 159
—— high power, 171
—— magnifying powers of, 169
—— Pillischer’s, 169
—— Ross’s, 166
—— Swift’s, 168
—— Watson’s, 167
Objects, collection of, 349
Oblique illumination, 186
Oidium albicans, 384
Okeden finder, the, 205
Onion, raphides of, 472
Opisthobranchiata, 548
Optical centre of lenses, 20
Optics, elementary, 12
Oscillariaceæ, 407
Osmic acid as stain, 298
Palates of gastrapods, 556
Palmellaceæ, 407
Palmoglæa macrococca, 401
Pandorina morum, 406
Parabolic reflector, 188
Paraffin wax, embedding in, 285
Parasites, cereal, 381
—— sponge, 512
—— vine, 380
Parasitic diseases of plants, 372
—— fungi of men and animals, 383
Parasitism, De Bary’s investigations in, 395
Patella radiata, 556
Pearls, structure of, 559
Pectinibranchs, 550
Pediastreæ, 422
Pedicellanæ, 543
Peltogaster curvatus, 539
Penetration in objective, 261
Pennatulidæ, 530
Pentacrinoids, 540
Pepperworts, 451
Peronospora viticola, 381
Petiole, 466
Phanerogamiæ, 451
Phanerogams, structure of, 453
Phloem of plants, 454
Pholadidæ, 545
Phomauvicola, 381
Photo-micrography, 210
—— apparatus for, 213
—— Baker’s apparatus for, 217
—— exposure table, 213
—— rules for, 214
—— Swift’s apparatus for, 213
Phylactolæmata, 533
Phylloxera vastatrix, 381
Physalia, 521
Physidæ, 551
Picro-carmine as stain, 299
Pigment cells, 446
Pillischer’s binocular microscope, 128
—— International microscope, 126
—— “Kosmos” microscope, 128
—— objectives, 169
Pinna ingens, 559
Pinnulariæ, 434
Pipette, 319
—— Pasteur’s bulb, 322
Plague, bacillus of, 370
—— the Bombay, 371
Planariæ, 575
Plano-convex lens, 19
Plants, epidermis of, 455
—— fibro-vascular system of, 460
—— flowering, 451
—— fossil, 475
—— ground tissue, system of, 458
—— hairs, 457, 473
—— parasitic diseases of, 374
—— raphides in, 472
—— reproductive organs of, 467
—— spores of parasitic fungus on, 376
—— structure of, 453
—— tissue systems of, 454
—— vascular system of, 464
Plasmodia, 482
Pleurobranchus aurantiacus, 548
—— plumula, 557
Pleurosigma angulatum, 429
—— as a test, 267
—— attenuatum, 429
Plumularia, 521
Pocket lens, Browning’s, 76
—— Coddington’s, 76
Podura-scale test, 268
—— villosa, 611
Polarisation apparatus, 223
—— of light, 219
—— prism, 220
—— —— method of employing, 224
—— rotation of plane of, 231
Polarised crystal of quinidine, 235
Polarising apparatus, Watson’s, 224
Pollen grains, 467
—— —— method of mounting, 467
Polycystina, 489
Polymorphina, 486
Polypomedusæ, 519
Polytrichum undulatum, 445
Polyzoa collecting, 350
Pond-snails, 551
Porifera, 506
Portable microscope, Watson’s, 110
Potassium bichromate as hardening reagent, 288
—— nitrate, crystal of, 232
Powell & Lealand’s microscope, 85
—— oil immersion objective, 166
—— student’s microscope, 88
—— formula for objective, 166
Preparing tissue, 283
Primordial cell, 357
Principal focus, 18
Pringle’s micro-photography apparatus, 217
Prism, 15
—— Nicol’s, 220
Pritchard’s diamond microscope, 9
Proboscis of house fly, 591
Proteolepas, 539
Protococcus invalis, 380
—— pluvialis, 401
Protoplasm, 356
—— staining living, 306
Protozoa, 478
Puccinia graminis, 375
Pyrocystis, 496
Quartz, 231
Quekett on Martin’s microscope, 6
Quinidine, crystals of, 235
Radiolaria, 490
Ramsden eye-piece, 142
—— micrometer eye-piece, 145
Raphides in plants, 472
Rayleigh’s theory of formation of optical images, 44
Reflection, 16
Reflector, Sorby’s, 199
Refraction, 13
—— through prism, 15
Reproductive organs of plants, 467
Resolving power, 262
Retiform tissue, 644
Rezner’s mechanical finger, 343
Rhizocarpeæ, 451
Rhizopoda, 482
Riddell’s binocular microscope, 62
Rochelle salt, 232
Rock limpet, 556
—— sections, mounting, 309
Ross’s achromatic condenser, 176
—— compressorium, 275
—— Eclipse microscope, 89
—— eye-pieces, 68
—— microscopes, 88
—— object glass, 154
—— objectives, 166
Ross-Hepworth arc lamp, 218
Ross-Jackson microscope, 82
Ross-Jackson-Zentmayer microscope, 83
Ross-Zentmayer microscope, 91
Rotatoria, mounting, 345
Rotifera, 502
Rousselet’s compressorium, 275
—— method of mounting rotatoria, 345
—— tank microscope, 126
Rye, ergot of, 382
Saccharomyces cerevisiæ, 384
—— ellipsoideus, 385
—— mycoderma, 384
Saccharomycetes, industrial uses of, 391
Salts, list of, 240
Saprolegnia ferox, 411
Sarcode, 357
Saw-fly, 598
Scalariidæ, 550
Scales of butterfly’s wings, 610
Scapander ligniarius, 557
Schäfer’s warm-stage, 282
Scyphomedusæ, 523
Sea-anemone, larvæ of, 529
Sea-anemones, 526
Sea-cucumber, 540, 543
Sea-hares, 549
Sea-mats, 532
Sea-urchin, 540
Sea-weeds, 409
Section cutting, 283
—— —— Cole’s directions for, 285
Section-cutting microtome, Cole’s, 289
—— lifters, 319
—— scissors, 283
Sections of hard wood, cutting, 316
Selenite, 225
Sepia officinalis, 556
Sertularia, 521
Shadbolt’s turn-table, 295
Sheep-tick, 624
Shell, structure of, 558
—— formation in limnæa, 552
Sieve-tubes, 465
Silk filaments, 474
Silk-worm, 605
Silk-worms, disease of, 363
Silver-side reflector, 198
Simple microscopes, 30, 72, 77
Siphonophora, 521
Sirax gigas, 597
Skin, 646
Smith & Beck’s achromatic condenser, 173
Snow crystals, 237
Sorby-Browning micro-spectroscopic eye-piece, 247
Sorby’s reflector, 199
Spectroscope, cells for use with, 251
—— the, 244
Spectrum of chromule, 255
Sphæroplea annulina, 409
Sphærosira volvex, 406
Sphagnaceæ, 446
Spherical aberration, 23
Spiders, 619
Spirilla, 368
Spiro-bacteria, 368
Splenic fever bacillus, 369
Sponges, 506
—— boring, 513
—— Geodia Barretti, 510
—— Grant’s researches on, 507
—— hyalonema, 512
—— parasite on, 512
—— reproduction of, 510
Spongia coalita, 507
Spongiadæ, 506
Spore of parasitic fungus on plants, 576
Spores, 366
Spores, aerobic, 399
—— endogenous, 366
—— staining of, 336
Spring clip for mounting, 296, 342
Stage, Bartley’s warm, 281
—— forceps, 198
—— Maddox growing, 280
—— Mayall’s mechanical, 124
—— moist and warm, 280
—— Schäfer’s, 282
—— Stricker’s, 282
—— Watson’s semi-mechanical, 107
Stain, eosin, 315
Staining animal structures, 292
—— bacteria, 334, 338
—— by logwood, 293
—— cellulose, 314
—— double, 293
—— double and treble, 300
—— living protoplasm, 306
—— of flagella, 336
—— of spores, 336
—— tissue, 283
Stains and staining methods, list of, 679
Stains, chloride of gold, 297
—— chloride of palladium, 298
—— contrast, 313
—— double and treble, 300
—— nitrate of silver, 297, 298
—— osmic acid, 298
—— picro-carmine, 299
—— single, 298
Starch, 238
—— granules, 469
—— —— of arrowroot, 470
—— —— of potato, 470
—— —— of wheat, 470
Star-fish, 540
Steinheil’s aplanatic lens, 77
Stentors, 501
Stephanoceros, 504
Stephanosphæra pluvialis, 403
Stephenson’s erecting binocular microscope, 71
Stereoscope, the, 60
Stereoscopic binocular vision, 60
Sterilised instruments, 321
Sterilisers, 324
—— Hearson’s, 325
—— steam, 325
—— —— Dr. Koch’s, 325
Sting of bee, 596
—— of wasp, 596
Stock-bottle, 279
Stomata of iris, 456
—— water pores, 457
Stone-lilies, 542
Stonewort, 415
Stricker’s warm stage, 282
Stringer’s apparatus for micro-photography, 674
Stylonychia mytilus, 500
Stylopidæ, 628
Substage condenser, 193
Subterranean fungi, 397
Sun-animalcules, 489
Swift’s advanced student’s microscope, 118
—— bacteriological microscope, 116
—— draw-tube, 116
—— four-legged microscope, 114
—— histological student’s microscope, 116
—— horizontal camera, 213
—— illuminating apparatus, 183
—— microscopes, 113
— objectives, 168
Tables, aperture, 58
Tænia, 564
Tanning skins, 393
Tardigrada, 631
Teasing out sections, needles for, 286
—— —— —— under condensed light, 287
Teeth, 652
—— lathe for cutting sections of, 308
—— method of cutting sections of, 308
—— mounting, 308
Tenent-hairs, 603
Terebella littoralis, 577
Terebratulata rubicuna, 559
Testacella maugei, 556
Test for illumination, 263
Test object, blood as a, 263
Test object, human hair as, 269
—— —— lepisma as, 264
—— —— pleurosigma, 267
—— —— podura-scale, 268
Test-plate, Abbé’s, 164
Threadworm, 566
Thorax of insects, 585
Thuricola valvata, 500
Tick, dog, 624
—— sheep, 624
Ticks, 622
Tissue, adipose, 644
—— bacteria in sections of, 337
—— fibrous, 642
—— hardening, 283
—— preparing, 283
—— retiform, 644
—— staining, 283
—— systems of plants, 454
Tongue of butterfly, 605
—— of house fly, 592
—— of wasp, 595
Tooth substance, 654
Topaz, 231
Tourmaline, 225
Trematode worms, 569
Trichina spiralis, 567
Trichomes of plants, 457
Troughs, 274
Truffle, 397
Tuber cibarium, 397
Tubicola, 576
Tubipora, 530
Tubularia dumortierii, 537
Tunicata, 549
Turbo marmoratus, 557
Turn-table, Shadbolt’s, 295
Typhoid bacillus, 370
Ulvaceæ, the, 411
Ulva lactuca, 411
—— thermalis, 411
Urinary salts, 236
Vallisneria, 418
Varley’s live-box, 274
Varnishes, 339
Vascular system of plants, 464
Vaucheria, 410
Vegetable tissues, staining and mounting, 310
Veins, 662
Velutina lævigata, 557
Vertebrata, 633
Vine parasites, 380
Violet sea-snail, 550
Visual angle, 72
—— judgment, 37
Volvocineæ, 404
Vorticellidæ, 499
Walmsley’s turn-table, 340
Warm chamber, Pfeiffer’s, 323
—— stage, 280
—— —— Bartley’s, 281
—— —— Schäfer’s, 282
—— —— Stricker’s, 282
Wasp, sting of, 596
—— tongue of, 595
Water thyme, 419
Watson’s achromatic condenser, 177
—— bacteriological Van Heurck’s microscope, 108
—— Edinburgh student’s microscope, 102
—— histological microscope, 107
—— mechanical draw-tube, 104
—— microscope lamp, 203
—— microscopes, 102
—— parachromatic condenser, 182
—— petrological microscope, 111
—— portable microscope, 110
—— semi-mechanical stage, 107
Webster-Collins condenser, 186
Weights and measures, metric system of, 687
Wenham’s binocular microscope, 65
—— double eye-piece, 189
—— immersion condenser, 189
—— parabolic condenser, 186
—— —— reflector, 187
—— radial microscope, 90
Wheat rust, 374
—— starch, 470
Wheel animalcules, 502
Whirligig-beetle, eyes of, 608
—— —— leg of, 608
Wings of butterfly, 610
—— of insects, 609
—— of moth, 610
Winogradsky’s investigations of bacteria, 398
Wollaston’s simple microscope, 74
Wood, formation of, 462
Wool, 474
Worms, 562
Wort-gelatine, 330
Xylem of plants, 462
Yeast cells, 384
—— German, 388
—— Hansen’s investigations of, 387
Zeiss’s compensating eye-piece, 147
—— cover-glass gauge, 165
—— microscope, 130
Zentmayer’s Holman syphon slide, 278
Zoophytes, 515
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