CONTENTS

CHAPTER IPAGE
Early Days of the Microscope[17]
CHAPTER II
Some Early Microscopists[29]
CHAPTER III
The Action of Light[40]
CHAPTER IV
The Compound Microscope[50]
CHAPTER V
Animal Life in Ponds and Streams[66]
CHAPTER VI
Plant Life in Ponds and Streams[83]
CHAPTER VII
The Microscope and Plant Life[97]
CHAPTER VIII
Animal Life and the Microscope[112]
CHAPTER IX
The Study of the Rocks[125]
CHAPTER X
The Microscope as Detective[137]
CHAPTER XI
Bacteria[152]
CHAPTER XII
Medical Work with the Microscope[167]
CHAPTER XIII
The Microscope and Agriculture[178]
CHAPTER XIV
The Microscope and Insect Life[192]
CHAPTER XV
The Microscope by the Seaside—Animal Life[208]
CHAPTER XVI
The Microscope by the Seaside—Plant Life[225]
CHAPTER XVII
Micro-Telescope and Super Microscope[239]
CHAPTER XVIII
Chemistry and the Microscope[248]
CHAPTER XIX
Use of the Microscope in Manufactures[260]
CHAPTER XX
The Microscope and Camera allied[274]
CHAPTER XXI
How the Glass used in Microscopes is made[282]
CHAPTER XXII
The Choice and Use of Apparatus[291]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Nanda Kot—An Example of Tele-Photography[Frontispiece]
Head of Dog Flea[56]
Starch Grains of Potato[72]
Phosphorescence Animalculæ[72]
Proteus Animalcule[72]
Cyclops[72]
Bladderwort[88]
Spores of Horse-tail[88]
Hairs on a Potato Leaf[88]
Spirogyra[88]
Thorn Insect[120]
Head of Palm Weevil[120]
Leaf Insect[120]
Head of Stick Insect[120]
Foraminifera[128]
Diatoms[128]
Stinging Hairs of Nettle[144]
Butterfly Wing Scales[144]
Crystals from Human Blood[168]
Crystals from the Blood of the Baboon[168]
Cluster Cups[184]
Rust of Wheat[184]
Pollen Grains on a Grass Flower[184]
Lower Side of a Fern Frond[184]
Head of a Beetle[200]
Head of Hercules Beetle[200]
A Cicada[200]
Head of Mantis[200]
Face of a Fly[216]
Section of Human Skin[216]
Feeler of Cockchafer[232]
View with Ordinary Camera[240]
View with Micro-Telescope[240]
Eye of a Cockchafer[256]
Hooks on a Bee’s Wing[256]
Spider’s Foot[264]
Fly’s Foot[264]
Fly’s Eye[296]
Images seen by a Fly[296]

The Romance of the Microscope