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THIS is a well-conceived and eminently useful book, which within convenient compass and in clear language gives an account of microscope and microtome, staining and mounting methods, photomicrographs, and so on. It begins at the beginning, and expounds with simple accuracy the various instruments and methods of the well-equipped biological laboratory. After describing the microscope and the microtome and their accessories, the author discusses, in successive chapters, fixing, imbedding, staining, mounting, and drawing. Five chapters are devoted to photomicrography, and others follow on bacteriological methods, special methods (e.g. decalcification, injection, maceration and polarisation). The book ends with useful formulas and tables, and with an appendix on laboratory furniture. We have tested the book as to various points, and have found it practical and lucid in every case. It is in part a compilation of hundreds of duly acknowledged useful hints and recipes from workers all over the world, but it also expresses the work of one who has faced detailed difficulties in actual practice and overcome them. We have come across many illustrations of American neatness and ingenuity which were fresh to us, and we confidently recommend the book as a worthy companion to Bolles-Lee's vade mecum and similar works.
Biological Laboratory Methods.
By P. H. Mell, Director of Alabama Experiment Station, Professor of Geology and Botany, Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Pp. xii + 321; 127 figs. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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Biological Laboratory Methods . Nature 68, 343 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068343b0
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