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Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes : a general history of insects : illustrated with thirty-two folio plates (2nd ed. / with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher) (1798)

Adams, George, 1750-1795 · London : Printed by Dillon and Keating for the editor · leaf 706

An illustration from Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes : a general history of insects : illustrated with thirty-two folio plates (2nd ed. / with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher), 1798, leaf 706
covered with white paper. The body of the fly shouldnot be made to touch the cork when the insect is affixed to it,but to stand up some little distance fromit, as only the edges of both wings areintended to touch, not the wings to lieflat on the cork. The wings are then tobe expanded, as in the… … 6/8 INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING The upper edges of the superior wings are to be placed in a linewith the head of the insect, and they are to be kept in this situa-tion by means of little braces, formed of card-paper and cut inthe shape represented in the figure; a number of which shouldalways be…

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