Microscopy: The Construction, Theory, and Use of the Microscope

Abstract

THE first edition of this work was reviewed in NATURE for February 6, 1908. The work has gained a well-deserved popularity, and two further editions have since been called for. In each of these the opportunity has been taken to bring the subject-matter so far as possible up to date, and to indicate important new developments. In the present edition may be noted especially the reference to low-power objectives designed to give great depth of focus and a flat field, valuable especially for the photography of relatively large specimens of appreciable thickness, where good definition has to be obtained of parts lying in different planes. To illustrate the use of these, a considerable number of new plates have been added, which include some admirable reproductions of photographs obtained with modern objectives of this type.

Microscopy: The Construction, Theory, and Use of the Microscope.

By Edmund J. Spitta. Third edition. Pp. xxviii + 537 + xxviii plates. (London: John Murray, 1920.) Price 25s. net.