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IN the preface the author tells us that the aim of the book is to put into the hands of the instructed anatomist “a concise but complete account of all the methods that have been recommended as useful for the purpose of micro scopic anatomy,” and also “that it is to serve as a guide to the beginner.” After a perusal of the book we venture to say that, although the book will prove useful, it is neither a concise, still less a complete, account of all the methods, nor will it serve as a guide to the beginner. As far as we can see, it is a collection of formulæ, published by various authors in various journals and archives, and particularly reported in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. The formulæ are more or less promiscuously given, and without an attempt of intelligible selection. For many formulæ references to their authors are given, but in some places these references are incomplete, in others they are wrong, since methods discovered by one are ascribed to another. Nor can we see the use of describing a host of minute and sometimes quite insignificant modifications of a certain method, as A's, B's, C's, &c., method.
The Microtomis's Vade-Mecum. A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy.
By Arther Bolles Lee. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1885.)
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KLEIN, E. The Microtomis's Vade-Mecum A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy . Nature 32, 147 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032147a0
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