Grundzüge der mikroskopischen Technik für Zoologen und Anatomen

Abstract

IN this the fourth edition of an established publication the authors have not found it necessary to make any material alteration in the contents of the previous edition. They have added, however, much new substance derived mainly from various microscopical journals; medical periodicals, numerous though they be, having, to the authors' regret, been almost entirely unproductive. As will be gathered from the title the scope of the work is limited to anatomical and zoological microscopy. Such limitation is strictly observed. Even in the general paragraphs all temptation to wander off into by-paths is sternly resisted. Although the authors give freely of their own experience, they refer largely to the labours of others. The book is, in fact,crowded with condensed information, which has been industriously and exhaustively compiled during the last four years from suitable sources in many languages. References to these sources are always given. Nine chapters (131 pages) are devoted to the preliminary operations of killing, fixing, hardening, and imbedding. Seven chapters (94 pages) deal with staining; five (45 pages) with cements, varnishes, injections, and bleaching. Nine (140 pages) of the remaining ten chapters treat minutely the specific examination of the embryo and of various tissues and organs: one chapter (39 pages) is restricted to invertebrates. There is a copious index of no less than sixty-two pages, so that consultation of the contents is easily made.

Grundzüge der mikroskopischen Technik für Zoologen und Anatomen.

By A. B. Lee P. Mayer. Vierte Auflage. Pp. vii + 515. (Berlin: R. Friedlander and Son, 1910.)