Brass plate for heating glasses, &c., 13.
Canada balsam, 14; with chloroform, 14, 60, 132; with turpentine, 14; air bubbles in, 56; Dr. Carpenter’s syringe for, 59; to fill cells with, 60; mounting of objects in, 56.
Carmine injecting fluid, Dr. Beale’s, 135: Dale & Davies’, 138.
Cells for dry objects, 6; with rings of cardboard, 7; with gutta-percha, 7; with leather, 7; with ivory, 8; with thin glass, 7; with varnish, 23, 26; for balsam, 60; for preservative liquids, 87–89; Shadbolt’s turntable useful in making, 9.
Chloride of zinc, solution of, 85; of calcium, solution of, 92.
Chloroform, use of (_see_ Canada balsam).
Circulation of blood, 140–142; of sap (_see_ Rotation).
Crystals, mounting of, dry, 50; to vary form of, and mount in balsam, 75; sections of, 109.
Diatomaceæ, nature of, 28; collection of, 29; in stomachs of fish, 30; to prepare and mount dry, 30–40; Mr. Rylands on, 33; in guano, 39; fossilized, 40; mounting in balsam, 61; mounting in preservative liquids, 92, 93.
Discs used in mounting, 22; supporter, Smith & Beck’s, 23.
Dissection, 111; microscope for, 111; instruments for, 112.
Distilled water, as preservative liquid, 83.
Elastic objects, to keep flat upon the slide, 11.
Eyes of insects, 70, 54; of animals injected, 136.
Ferns, 51; development of spores of, 145.
Fish, fins and tails of, 50; scales of, 53, 78; injection of, 137; circulation of blood in, 142.
Foraminifera, 41; separation of, 41; to clean, 42; to clean from tallow soundings, 42; to mount, 45, 63; from chalk, 63.
Forceps, ordinary and wooden, 11; bull-nosed, for injection, 123.
Frog, injected, 136; to show circulation of blood, 140.
Gastric teeth of insects, 120; of molluscs, 117.
Gelatine for injection, 124; preservative liquid, 84.
Glass slides, 1; thin, 3; thin, to cut, 3; thin, to measure, 4; thin, to clean, 5; cells, to make, 88; rings for cells, 88; tubes, 10.
Hairs, vegetable, 46; to mount dry, 54; to mount as polarizing objects, 79; sections of, 105.
Infusoria, in preservative liquid, 92; fossil, 40.
Injections, vi., 122; apparatus for, 122; colours for, 125; directions for, 127; with various colours, 131; mounting of, 131; transparent, 133, 138.
Insects, scales of, 48; to mount, 49; legs and feet of, 54, 72; eyes of, 54, 70; Mr. Hepworth on mounting, 68; antennæ of, 71; mouth of, 72; tracheæ and spiracles of, 72, 115; parasitic, 73; in preservative liquid, 94; eggs of, 94; gizzard of, 120; circulation of blood in, 142.