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WORKERS in this fascinating branch of science will no doubt be well acquainted with the author's large treatise, a book which is suitable, more especially, for those who wish to devote themselves very considerably to this kind of work, and to enter into all the details connected with it. The publication of the present book will not appeal so much to the interest of this class of readers, but will be welcomed more by those who wish to get a good working idea of photo-micrography. With this intention this manual has been kept within very reasonable limits, is decidedly explicit, and thoroughly practical. In the seventeen chapters the reader is led through all the manipulations, from the choice of instruments to suit his purse, kinds of plates to use, colour treatment of objects, and general photographic procedure, &c, to those dealing with good hints on lantern-slides, cover-glass preparations, and section cutting and staining. The text is accompanied with numerous well-chosen illustrations, and the get-up of the book is all that could be desired. It may interest our readers to know that in the above pages we are informed that no apparatus is recommended on hearsay, or is any statement made or step suggested “outside the knowledge and practice of the writer.”
Practical Photo-Micrography.
By Andrew Pringle. (London: Iliffe and Son, 1894.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 50, 318 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050318a0
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