[Gutenberg 55146] • Common Objects of the Microscope

PEEFACE.

IN my two previous handbooks, the "Common,

Objects " of the Sea-shore and Country, I could but

slightly glance at the minute beings which swarm in

every locality, or at the wonderful structures which

are discovered by the Microscope within or upon the

creatures therein described. Since that time a general

demand has arisen for an elementary handbook upon

the Microscope and its practical appliance to the study

of nature ; and in order to supply that want, this little

volume has been produced.

I must warn the reader that he is not to expect a

work that will figure and describe every object which

may be found on the sea-shore or in the fields, but

merely one by which he will be enabled to guide

himself in microscopical research, and avoid the loss

of time and patience which is almost invariably the

lot of the novice in these interesting studies. Upwards

of four hundred objects have been figured, including

many representatives of the animal, vegetable, and ..