Common objects of the microscope
A popular guide to microscopy by the English naturalist and clergyman J. G. Wood, illustrated by Tuffen West and published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge in London and New York in 1861 for amateur observers. Numbered plates crowd dozens of small specimen studies—insect scales, diatoms, hairs, plant tissue, shells—onto single sheets, alongside an engraved brass microscope useful as pattern, spot motif, or texture source.
