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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 448

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ggs (in numbers) in melted paraffin are placed in ashallow watch-crystal. They immediately sink to the bottom, andthen the whole is allowed to cool. The crystal, glass upwards, isnow placed on the stage, and the eggs examined under a lens. In this way one can readily see exactly how any egg lies,… … 416 PKEPAKATION, MOUNTING, AND COLLECTION OF OBJECTS position are thus cut out, the paraffin is again melted, and afterstilling the eggs the cutting is continued as before. A more general method is to take a common flat medicine bottle,as in fig. 357, fitted with a cork through which two tubes…

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