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THE first part of Dr. Dippel's treatise on the microscope was devoted to a description of its different forms, with practical directions for its use and for the preparation of specimens; in the present volume we have an account of its application to the observation of the minute parts of plants. It is divided into four sections. The first consists of investigations of cells as distinct organisms, including the cell-membrane, the cell-nucleus, the cell-fluid, protoplasm, and salts; the formation of cells; and their transformation into tubes and vessels. The second part relates to the more complicated tissues of the higher cryptogamia and of the phanerogamia. The third records the results of investigations on the elementary organs and tissues in polarised light. The fourth part is occupied by an account of the anatomical structure or comparative anatomy of the different compound organs, the stem, root, leaves, and organs of reproduction. With this volume the work closes for the present, but an additional one is promised at some future time on animal histiology. It contains a clear record of the present state of microscopical science as applied to the minute structures of the vegetable kingdom, free from those abstruse speculations which often fill so large a portion of continental works of this description. The illustrations, both wood-cuts and lithographs, are of the excellence to which we are accustomed in German scientific works, and to each section is appended a list of all the important works and papers already published on the subject.
The Microscope and its Applications.—Das Mikroskop und seine Anwendung.
Von Dr. L. Dippel. Zweiter Theil. Anwendung des Mikroskopes auf die Histiologie der Gewächse. 8vo. pp. 328, with 188 woodcuts, and 6 lithographic plates, price 12s. (Brunswick, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate).
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B., A. The Microscope and its Applications—Das Mikroskop und seine Anwendung . Nature 1, 134 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001134d0
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