Abstract
THE first number of this publication is a very creditable production, from whatever point of view it may be regarded. It is written primarily for the amateur, although some of the articles included could be read with interest by any microscopist, for they indicate the work that has been undertaken and carried out during the year. Perhaps, however, it is in this very direction that the book is deficient, as in some of the articles, instead of treating only those parts of the subject which are of recent interest, a large amount of matter is included that can be found in any good work on microscopy. It might safely be assumed that those who are sufficiently interested in the subject will have the necessary knowledge to enable them tounderstand the points under discussion without this preliminary instruction. This fault, if it may be called so, is perhaps almost inseparable from the first number of a work of this kind; but no doubt in future numbers there will be less difficulty in attaining the object the publishers state they have in view.
The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy.
Pp. 164. (London: Percy Lund, Humphries, and Co., Ltd., 1898.)
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B., J. The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy. Nature 59, 173 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059173a0
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