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PREFACE.

A LIST OF THE AUTHORS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THE FORMER AND PRESENT EDITION OF THESE ESSAYS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

ERRATA.

LIST OF THE PLATES, WITH REFERENCES TO THE PAGES WHERE THE SEVERAL FIGURES ARE DESCRIBED.

CHAP. I. A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE UPON THE INSTRUMENT CALLED A MICROSCOPE.

TO MAKE SMALL GLASS MICROSCOPIC GLOBULES.

CHAP. II. OF VISION; OF THE OPTICAL EFFECT OF MICROSCOPES, AND OF THE MANNER OF ESTIMATING THEIR MAGNIFYING POWERS.

OF THE SINGLE MICROSCOPE.

OF THE DOUBLE OR COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.

OF THE SOLAR MICROSCOPE.

OF THE MAGNIFYING POWERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

OF THE NEEDLE MICROMETER.

ACCOUNT OF GLASS, PEARL, &c. MICROMETERS, BY THE EDITOR.

CHAP. III. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST APPROVED MICROSCOPES, AND THE METHOD OF USING THEM.

DESCRIPTION OF ADAMS’S IMPROVED AND UNIVERSAL LUCERNAL MICROSCOPE. Fig. 1.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL IMPROVEMENTS MADE UPON MR. ADAMS’S LUCERNAL MICROSCOPE. BY THE EDITOR.

DESCRIPTION OF CUFF’S DOUBLE-CONSTRUCTED MICROSCOPE, REPRESENTED AT Fig. 1.

THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF JONES’S IMPROVED COMPOUND OR DOUBLE MICROSCOPES, REPRESENTED IN Fig. 1 AND 2. BY THE EDITOR.

OF THE MOST IMPROVED COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, BEING UNIVERSAL IN ITS USES, AND FORMING THE SINGLE, COMPOUND, OPAKE, AND AQUATIC MICROSCOPES.

A DESCRIPTION OF CULPEPER’S, OR THE COMMON THREE-PILLARED MICROSCOPE. Fig. 3.

A DESCRIPTION OF MARTIN’S IMPROVED SOLAR MICROSCOPE, WHICH IS CONSTRUCTED TO EXHIBIT TRANSPARENT AND OPAKE OBJECTS.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSPARENT SOLAR MICROSCOPE AND APPARATUS. Fig. 4, to 14.

THE SCREW BARREL, OR WILSON’S SINGLE POCKET MICROSCOPE. Fig. 1 and 2.

DESCRIPTION OF A SMALL MICROSCOPE FOR OPAKE OBJECTS. Fig. 3 and 4.

OF ELLIS’S SINGLE OR AQUATIC MICROSCOPE.

DESCRIPTION OF LYONET’S ANATOMICAL MICROSCOPE. Fig. 3.

DR. WITHERING’S BOTANICAL MICROSCOPE. Fig. 1.

THE POCKET BOTANICAL AND UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE.

BOTANICAL MAGNIFIERS.

DESCRIPTION OF A PORTABLE MICROSCOPE AND TELESCOPE. Fig. 1, to 6.

DESCRIPTION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR CUTTING THIN TRANSVERSE SECTIONS OF WOOD, Fig. 1.

CHAP. IV. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE MICROSCOPE AND PREPARING THE OBJECTS.

OF THE NECESSARY PREPARATION OF THE MICROSCOPE FOR OBSERVATION.

OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE LIGHT.

OF THE PREPARATION OF OBJECTS FOR THE MICROSCOPE.

CHAP. V. THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY; OF INSECTS IN GENERAL, AND OF THEIR CONSTITUENT PARTS.

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF INSECTS.

DISTINGUISHING CRITERIA OF INSECTS.

OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF INSECTS.

OF THE SILK-WORM.

OF THE BEETLE.

OF THE MUSCA CHAMÆLEON.

OF THE LIBELLULA OR DRAGON FLY.

OF THE RESPIRATION OF INSECTS.

OF RESPIRATION IN THE LARVA OF THE MUSCA PENDULA.

OF THE GENERATION OF INSECTS.

OF THE APHIDES OR PUCERONS.

OF THE APIS OR BEE.

OF THE EGGS OF INSECTS.

OF THE FOOD OF INSECTS.

OF THE HABITATION OF INSECTS.

OF THE TERMITES, GENERALLY CALLED WHITE ANTS.

OF THE HABITATIONS OF CATERPILLARS.

CHAP. VI. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE INTERNAL PARTS OF INSECTS, AND MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE CATERPILLAR OF THE PHALÆNA COSSUS—-A DESCRIPTION OF SUNDRY MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE INTERIOR PARTS OF THE CATERPILLAR.

A DESCRIPTION OF SUNDRY MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, EXHIBITED IN SEVERAL PLATES OF THIS WORK.

CHAP. VII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HYDRA, OR FRESH-WATER POLYPE.

HYDRA. [111]

OF THE VORTICELLÆ.

CHAP. VIII. OF THE ANIMALCULA INFUSORIA.

A METHODICAL DIVISION OF THE ANIMALCULA INFUSORIA.

ADDITIONAL ANIMALCULA INFUSORIA, EXHIBITED IN PLATE XXVI.

CHAP. IX. ON THE ORGANIZATION OR CONSTRUCTION OF TIMBER, AS VIEWED BY THE MICROSCOPE.

OF THE RIND.

OF THE VESSELS WHICH ARE CONTAINED BETWEEN THE RIND AND THE BARK.

OF THE BARK.

OF THE CELLULAR TISSUE.

OF THE VASA PROPRIA INTERIORA.

OF THE BLEA.

OF THE WOOD.

OF THE CORONA.

OF THE PITH.

OF THE SAP VESSELS.

OF THE VASA PROPRIA INTIMA.

CHAP. X. OF THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF SALTS, AS SEEN BY THE MICROSCOPE; TOGETHER WITH A CONCISE LIST OF OBJECTS.

A CONCISE LIST OF OBJECTS FOR THE MICROSCOPE .

CHAP. XI. AN ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF MINUTE AND RARE SHELLS.—A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF A VARIETY OF VEGETABLE SEEDS, AS THEY APPEAR WHEN VIEWED BY THE MICROSCOPE. BY THE EDITOR.

A DESCRIPTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MINUTE AND RARE SHELLS.

A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF A VARIETY OF VEGETABLE SEEDS.

CHAP. XII. INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS—A COPIOUS LIST OF MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS. BY THE EDITOR.

THE METHOD OF PROCURING MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING MOTHS, &C. IN THEIR CATERPILLAR STATE.

THE METHOD OF REARING OR BREEDING THEM.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING THEM IN THEIR CHRYSALIS STATE.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING THEM IN THEIR FLY OR PERFECT STATE.

THE METHOD OF MANAGING THEM IN THEIR FLY STATE.

THE METHODS OF COLLECTING INSECTS OF THE BEETLE KIND.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED HEMIPTERA.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED NEUROPTERA.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED HYMENOPTERA.

THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED DIPTERA.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FITTING UP A CABINET.

A COPIOUS LIST OF MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS.

ADDITIONS.

LIST OF THE PRICES AT WHICH THE MICROSCOPES AND APPARATUS ARE MADE AND SOLD BY MESSRS. JONES, HOLBORN, LONDON.

INDEX.

A CATALOGUE OF Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments , MADE AND SOLD BY W. and S. JONES , [No. 135,] NEXT FURNIVAL’S-INN, HOLBORN, LONDON.

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