Excerpt from The Microscopist's Companion; A Popular Manual of Practical Microscopy: Designed for Those Engaged in Microscopic Investigation, Schools, Seminaries, Colleges, Etc., And Comprising Selections From the Best Writers on the Microscope, Relative to Its Use, Mode of Management, Preservation of Objects, Etc

The author was induced to prepare the present work not only for the purpose of replying to the numerous enquiries relative to the use of the instrument, etc., which have, from time to time, been received by him from those commencing microscopic studies, but also from the hope thata work of the kind might find favor with the students of schools, seminaries, colleges, etc., with the scientist, and with the great mass of community, and thus become a means of introducing the microscope into families, increasing the happi ness around the domestic hearth, by contributing amusement with instruction, cultivating a taste for the beautiful, a love for the works of nature, and thereby enlarging and extending the sphere of the mental and intellectual faculties. And he will feel fully repaid for his labor, should such a hope be realized. He claims no originality in\ the matter contained in the work, which consists principally of selections from the best writers arranged to suit the plan he had in view of a brief, comprehensive, practically useful, and cheap publica tion. The authors to whom he is chiefly indebted are Griffith and Henfrey, (micrographic Dictionary), Quekett, ' Pritchard on Infu soria, Hogg, Bennet, Beale, Schabt, and others, beside the London Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

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