Section-Cutting / A Practical Guide to the Preparation and Mounting of Sections for the Microscope, Special Prominence Being given to the Subject of Animal Sections

by Sylvester Marsh

NOTE F., Page 22.

As the size of the sections which it may be desired to cut, varies within wide limits, the best microtomes made in this country are furnished with as many as three tubes or “bushings,” fitting one within the other, and in this way the hole may be partially filled up and thus reduced in size. This enables us to obtain a range of from one inch and a quarter, suitable for large histological preparations, to one-eighth of an inch for such objects as hair sections.