Abstract
THE author of this work tells us that he has aimed at leading “the possessor of his first microscope into the smooth path of progress, by pointing out the simplest and most elementary methods of observation, and, after so far clearing the way, leading him gradually to the higher branches of microscopical manipulation.” It must be admitted that he has succeeded in doing this. His modest little volume is both sound and original, and confirms the conviction that popular treatises, to be of good effect, must be produced by those who have themselves endured the drudgery of routine work and who have acquired their experience first hand. One sees throughout this work traces of a generation which is past, but as the book is not written for the schoolmen of to-day, criticism is, from their stand-point, disarmed.
Elementary Microscopical Examination.
By T. Charters White, late President of the Quekett Microscopical Club. 104 pp. (London: Roper and Drowley.)
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Elementary Microscopical Examination . Nature 37, 555–556 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037555a0
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