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REASONABLY priced, compact, well bound and clearly written, this book surpasses the high standard already set by the author in the first edition. There are chapters on the microscope and its use, methods of making preparations of animal and plant tissues, methods of wax-embedding, formulae, sources and culture of material, preservation of material, etc.; while more than a hundred pages are devoted to methods of dealing with specific material, both plant and animal. There are also an excellent little bibliography and a list of dealers from whom amateurs or schools not favourably situated can obtain enough to satisfy the most exacting student of the microscope. The author has done well to set out his practical instructions line by line in numbered sequence, adding the length of time for applying each reagent and giving a number of alternative methods. For the next edition, the author should consider omitting the chapter on the protoplasm and the cell (too short to be of great use) and substitute a few pages on the cultivation of microscopic fungi, with details of various nutrient media in common use. All students and teachers of biology owe thanks to Mr. Peacock for this excellent little compendium; for its scope there is none better.
Elementary Microtechnique
By H. Alan Peacock. Second edition. Pp. viii + 330. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1940.) 9s.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1005 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451005a0
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