Note E — Chapter IV · PRESERVATIVE LIQUIDS, ETC., PARTICULARLY WHERE CELLS ARE USED.
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Dr. Carpenter says:—“Glycerine has a solvent power for carbonate of lime, and should not be employed when the object contains any calcareous structure. In ignorance of this fact, the author (Dr. C.) employed glycerine to preserve a number of remarkably fine specimens of the pentacrinoid larva of the Comatula, whose colours he was anxious to retain; and was extremely vexed to find, when about to mount them, that their calcareous skeletons had so entirely disappeared, that the specimens were completely ruined.”