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GIVE this book to an intelligent boy or girl with a taste for natural history, and let it be used not merely as a reading-book, but as a guide-book to nature study, and you will do more towards cultivating the spirit of investigation than by dozens of lectures. The common idea that very little real work can be done without a compound microscope and numerous accessories has tended to discourage young naturalists, but Mr. Scherren describes so many interesting objects, all of which have been seen by him with a pocket lens, that his book will induce many to study nature who would otherwise acquire knowledge second-hand. All the examples described are taken from the Arthropoda. The group is interesting, and specimens belonging to it are so common that they can easily be procured. We have no doubt that many young students will profit by this instructive introduction to one of the main divisions of the animal kingdom.
Through a Pocket Lens.
By Henry Scherren Pp. 192. (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1897).
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Through a Pocket Lens. Nature 56, 125 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056125c0
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