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Nature, Gardens & Animals
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope
John William Griffith
235 pages~4 hr 41 min read18 chapters$4.99
A drop of pond water is a menagerie once you know how to look. Griffith's manual teaches the mounting of objects, then guides the lens across vegetable tissues, ferns, mosses, and algae, cell by cell. Practical technique meets a tour of the miniature living world. Set your slide, focus the barrel, and see what the naked eye misses.
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18 chapters
- 1AN E L E M E N T A R Y T E X T - B O O K OF T H E M I C R O S C O P E; INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS OF PREPARING AND MOUNTING OBJECTS, ETC.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4CHAPTER I. THE MICROSCOPE.
- 5CHAPTER II. THE MOUNTING OF OBJECTS.
- 6CHAPTER III. VEGETABLE ELEMENTS AND TISSUES.
- 7CHAPTER IV. VEGETABLE ORGANS.
- 8CHAPTER V. FERNS, OR FIL´ICES.
- 9CHAPTER VI. MOSSES, OR MUS´CI (MUSCUS, MOSS).
- 10CHAPTER VII. ALGÆ (ALGA, SEA-WEED).
- 11CHAPTER VIII. LICHENS.
- 12CHAPTER IX. FUNGI.
- 13CHAPTER X. ANIMAL ELEMENTS AND TISSUES.
- 14CHAPTER XI. ARTICULATA (ARTIC´ULUS, A JOINT).
- 15CHAPTER XII. RADIATA.
- 16CHAPTER XIII. PROTOZÓA (πρῶτος, FIRST, ξῶον, ANIMAL).
- 17CHAPTER XIV. OPTICAL PRINCIPLES.
- 18INDEX.
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