Essays on the Microscope / Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
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Truth discovering to Time, Science instructing her Children in the Improvements on the Microscope.
London, Published July 1. st 1787, by Geo. e Adams, N. o 60 Fleet Street.
ESSAYS ON THE MICROSCOPE; CONTAINING A PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST IMPROVED MICROSCOPES ; A GENERAL HISTORY OF INSECTS, THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, PECULIAR HABITS, AND ŒCONOMY:
AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS SPECIES, AND SINGULAR PROPERTIES, OF THE HYDRÆ AND VORTICELLÆ: A DESCRIPTION OF THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE ANIMALCULA:
WITH
A CONCISE CATALOGUE OF INTERESTING OBJECTS: A VIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION OF TIMBER, AND THE CONFIGURATION OF SALTS, WHEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY-TWO FOLIO PLATES
BY THE LATE GEORGE ADAMS, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, &c.
THE SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, BY FREDERICK KANMACHER, F. L. S.
LONDON: PRINTED BY DILLON AND KEATING, FOR THE EDITOR; AND FOR W. AND S. JONES, HOLBORN. MDCCXCVIII.
George Adams
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ERRATA.
TO MAKE SMALL GLASS MICROSCOPIC GLOBULES.
OF THE SINGLE MICROSCOPE.
OF THE DOUBLE OR COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.
OF THE SOLAR MICROSCOPE.
OF THE MAGNIFYING POWERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.
OF THE NEEDLE MICROMETER.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL IMPROVEMENTS MADE UPON MR. ADAMS’S LUCERNAL MICROSCOPE. BY THE EDITOR.
OF THE MOST IMPROVED COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, BEING UNIVERSAL IN ITS USES, AND FORMING THE SINGLE, COMPOUND, OPAKE, AND AQUATIC MICROSCOPES.
THE POCKET BOTANICAL AND UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE.
BOTANICAL MAGNIFIERS.
OF THE NECESSARY PREPARATION OF THE MICROSCOPE FOR OBSERVATION.
OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE LIGHT.
OF THE PREPARATION OF OBJECTS FOR THE MICROSCOPE.
A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF INSECTS.
DISTINGUISHING CRITERIA OF INSECTS.
OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF INSECTS.
OF THE SILK-WORM.
OF THE BEETLE.
OF THE MUSCA CHAMÆLEON.
OF THE LIBELLULA OR DRAGON FLY.
OF THE RESPIRATION OF INSECTS.
OF RESPIRATION IN THE LARVA OF THE MUSCA PENDULA.
OF THE GENERATION OF INSECTS.
OF THE APHIDES OR PUCERONS.
OF THE APIS OR BEE.
OF THE EGGS OF INSECTS.
OF THE FOOD OF INSECTS.
OF THE HABITATION OF INSECTS.
OF THE TERMITES, GENERALLY CALLED WHITE ANTS.
OF THE HABITATIONS OF CATERPILLARS.
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE INTERIOR PARTS OF THE CATERPILLAR.
OF THE VORTICELLÆ.
ADDITIONAL ANIMALCULA INFUSORIA, EXHIBITED IN PLATE XXVI.
OF THE RIND.
OF THE VESSELS WHICH ARE CONTAINED BETWEEN THE RIND AND THE BARK.
OF THE BARK.
OF THE CELLULAR TISSUE.
OF THE VASA PROPRIA INTERIORA.
OF THE BLEA.
OF THE WOOD.
OF THE CORONA.
OF THE PITH.
OF THE SAP VESSELS.
OF THE VASA PROPRIA INTIMA.
THE METHOD OF PROCURING MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES.
THE METHOD OF REARING OR BREEDING THEM.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING THEM IN THEIR CHRYSALIS STATE.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING THEM IN THEIR FLY OR PERFECT STATE.
THE METHOD OF MANAGING THEM IN THEIR FLY STATE.
THE METHODS OF COLLECTING INSECTS OF THE BEETLE KIND.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED HEMIPTERA.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED NEUROPTERA.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED HYMENOPTERA.
THE METHOD OF COLLECTING INSECTS CALLED DIPTERA.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FITTING UP A CABINET.
ADDITIONS.
INDEX.
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