LIST OF THE PRICES
AT WHICH THE MICROSCOPES AND APPARATUS ARE MADE AND SOLD BY MESSRS. JONES, HOLBORN, LONDON.

Plate[VIII.]Fig.8.A triple magnifier, tortoise-shell and silver110
[——]7.A ditto to combine, in tortoise-shell080
[VI.]14.A small pocket microscope for insects or flowers076
[——]1.Dr. Withering’s pocket botanical microscope0150
[——]2.Jones’s universal pocket microscope, according to the apparatus, from 1l. 6s. to2100
[II. B.]1 and 2.Wilson’s screw-barrel, or single microscope, 2l. 12s. 6d. to3136
[——]3 and 4.—— opake microscope,220
[VII. B.]3.Ellis’s aquatic microscope2126
[VI.]3.Lyonet’s anatomical microscope2126
[VII. A.]1, &c.Cuffs double constructed microscope and apparatus, in a case5156
[IV.]3.Culpeper’s compound microscope and apparatus, in a mahogany case4146
[——]1.Jones’s improved universal ditto, and apparatus660
[——]2.—— best and most improved ditto, with a greater variety of apparatus, packed in a mahogany case10100
Ditto, with the additions of a set of micrometers and vegetable cuttings12120
[VI.]4, 5, &c.Transparent solar microscope and apparatus in brass, in a mahogany case5156
[V.]1,&c. Opake and transparent solar microscope and apparatus, with objects, &c. in ditto case10100
Ditto with additional apparatus for large objects, called a megalascope, &c. 12l. 12s. to16160
[III.]1, &c.Lucernal microscope, as mounted by Adams, with apparatus, complete2000
[IX.]3 and 4.Jones’s improved ditto, with or without rack-work to the stage, and other additions, from 12l. 12s. to18180
[——]6.Lanthorn microscope660
[VIII.]3.Pocket achromatic 20-inch telescope and microscope3136
[IX.]1 and 2.Cutting engine for slices of vegetable objects330
[II. A.]10.Micrometers on pearl or glass, in sets, from 10s. 6d. to220
Ivory sliders prepared for transparent objects, per dozen0120
Custance’s fine vegetable cuttings in large ivory sliders, from a set of six sliders to four dozen,per dozen1100
Bottles of salts for configurations, packed in mahogany portable cases, according to the number, from 2l.2s. to550

Magazines of microscopical apparatus, with collections of objects, fitted up to any extent and to order.

INDEX.

A.
Abdomen of insects,[201]
Activity of minute animals,[212],
[note] [427]
Adams improves lucernal microscope,[21]
—— —— —— described,[64]
Advantages of microscopes, whence derived,[45]
Æpinus, his microscopic telescope,[3], [22]
Agility of jerboa, [note] [212]—kanguroo,[ibid.]
Air destroys and produces animation,[173]
Anatomical microscope, Lyonet’s,[122]
Angle of incidence, what, [32]—of refraction,[ibid.]
Animalcula, a variety of diseases attributed to them,[note] [433]
—— in teeth, their existence doubted,[note] [432]
—— in infusions, to procure,[151]
—— infusoria, history of,[415]
—— —— erroneous opinion concerning them, [421]—refuted,[423]
—— —— monas, [430]—proteus, [436]—volvox,[437]—enchelis, [443]—vibrio, [451]—cyclidium,[479]—paramæcium, [482]—kolpoda, [484]—gonium,[489]—bursaria, [491]—cercaria, [492]—leucophra,[500]—trichoda, [507]—kerona, [530]—himantopus,[533]—vorticella, [536]—brachionus, [563]—additional,[570]
Antennæ of insects described, [190]—conjectures on their use,[note] [191],
[192]
—— their characters,[192]
Ants, white, or termites, history of,[308]
Aphides, their transformations,[260]
—— —— generation,[274]
—— —— —— experiments on by Bonnet,[274]
—— —— —— —— by Richardson,[275]
Apis or bee, its proboscis to dissect,[144]
—— sting to dissect,[ibid.]
—— proboscis described,[181]
—— generation of,[279]
Apparatus to Cuff’s microscope,[90]
—— Adams’s lucernal microscope,[77]
—— Jones’s improved microscope,[96]
—— most improved, [101]—additional,[102]
—— Culpeper’s microscope,[105]
—— Martin’s opake solar,[109]
Aptera, order of insects, [220]—to collect,[687]
Aquatic microscope by Ellis,[119]
Aranea or spider,[621]
Argand’s lamp described—the management of,[69]
Aristotle, polypes mentioned by,[note] [360]
Athens, cruelty punished at,[note] [152]
Augustine (St.) polypes not unknown to him,[note] [359]
B.
Baker, his method of viewing particles of blood,[149]
Banks (Sir Jos.) his approbation of Walker’s publication on shells,[630]
Barbut, his remedy for sting of gnats,[note] [188]
—— his opinion on sense of hearing in insects,[note] [217]
—— on the brent goose,[note] [347]
Barker’s compound microscope,[17]
Barnacle, or lepas anatifera, beard of, to prepare,[145]
Bee, its proboscis to dissect,[144]
—— sting, to dissect,[ibid.]
—— proboscis described,[181]
—— generation of, [279]—Schirach’s account of,[280]—Debraw’s ditto,[281]
—— fecundity of,[290]
Beetle, its transformations,[242]
—— diamond, its transcendant beauty,[204]
Beetles, to procure,[680]
Blatta, cockroach, mischief occasioned by them,[note] [683]
Blea of vegetables, to prepare,[162]
Blood, its circulation and particles to examine,[148]
—— —— in flounders, &c.,[149]
—— —— in tails of eels,[ibid.]
Boat-fly, its wings,[143]
Body of insects,[200]
Bones, to examine,[146]
Bonnet, theory of transformation of insects,[261]
—— experiments on aphides,[274]
—— on the interior structure of vegetables,[575]
Botanical microscope by Withering,[123]
—— —— pocket and universal,[124]
—— magnifiers,[125]
Box, breeding, figure of,[671]
Brain of insects, to prepare,[146]
Brass micrometer, by Coventry,[60]
Breeze-fly, its proboscis to dissect,[144]
Brent-goose, curious idea of its origin,[346],
[note] [347]
Buffon, his hypothesis,[421]
—— refuted by Ellis,[423]
Bug, bed, described, [618]—introduced after the fire of London,[note] [684]
Butterfly net, figure of,[674]
Butterflies, wings of,[144], [207]
—— remarks on their substance,[note] [207]
—— proboscis of,[186]
—— and moths, to collect and preserve,[669]
—— figure of the manner of setting them,[677]
C.
Cabinet, instructions for forming,[693]
—— how to preserve insects in,[694]
—— Drury’s, short account of,[695]
Cantharis, its value in medicine and commerce,[note] [175]
Cast skin of insects, to prepare,[145]
Caterpillars, habitations of,[325]
Cavallo applies pearl micrometers to telescopes,[60]
Change of insects to pupa state, [229]—to fly or perfect state,[236]
Chrysalis, see [pupa]
Chrysomela asparagi described,[353]
Cimex striatus described,[352]
—— lectularius,[618]
Circulation of blood, to examine,[148]
—— in eels, flounders, and gudgeons,[149]
Clark, his account of British oestri,[note] [294]
Cochineal, to prepare tincture of,[61]
—— its beautiful dye,[note] [175]
Compassion to animals formerly not regarded,[note] [177]
Coleoptera order of insects,[219]
—— to collect,[680]
Configurations of salts, to prepare,[163]
—— —— to view by the microscope,[166]
Conjectures on the use of antennæ,[note] [191],
[192]
—— on sense of hearing, and on sounds proceeding from insects,[note] [216]
Construction of timber,[575]
Cossus, caterpillar of, described,[334]
Coventry, his glass, pearl, &c. micrometers,[60]
—— —— —— —— how used,[ibid.]
Creation, wisdom of God in the,[167]
—— providence in ditto, [174]—goodness, [175]—theeffect it ought to produce,[176]
Criteria, distinguishing, of insects,[216]
Cruelty to animals, reflections on,[150],
[note], [ibid.]
Cuff, his double constructed microscope described, [89]—apparatus to ditto,[90]—how to use,[91]
Culex, its proboscis to dissect,[144]
—— pipiens, its proboscis described,[187]
—— its unpleasant effects, [note], [ibid.]—fartherdescribed,[623]
Culpeper’s microscope,[104]
—— —— apparatus to,[105]
—— —— to use,[ibid.]
Curculio imperialis,[204]
Custance, list of his vegetable cuttings,[709]
Cynips or gall-fly, its transformation,[260]
D.
Death-head moth, the harbinger of mortality!,[note] [669]
—— watch of Linnæus—Geoffroy—Shaw—Fabricius—Gmelin,[note] [688]—the terror it occasions, [note][689]—quotations from Brown—Swift—Gay and Shakspeare,[ibid.]
Debraw, his account of bees,[281]
De Geer, on the generation of a moth,[291]
De la Hire first notices the stemmata of insects,[199]
Dellebarre’s compound microscope,[16]
Dermestes tesselatus,[note] [688]
De Saussure, a writer on the interior structure of vegetables,[575]
Diptera order of insects,[219]
—— —— —— to collect,[687]
Dissecting table, Lyonet’s, to use,[123]
—— —— Musschenbroeck’s,[137]
—— Swammerdam’s method of,[138]
—— Lyonet’s ditto,[141]
—— Hooke’s observations on,[142]
Divinis compound microscope,[15]
Dragon-fly, eyes of, to dissect,[145]
Drebell introduces the microscope into England,[2]
Drone-fly, eyes of,[196]
Drury, his magnificent cabinet of insects,[695]
—— illustrations of natural history,[696]
Du Hamel writes on the interior structure of vegetables,[575]
Dutch claim the invention of the microscope,[1]
E.
Earwig, its wings,[143], [205]
Eels, scales of, to examine,[147]
—— circulation of blood in,[148]
—— paste, to procure, [152]—to preserve,[ibid.]—described,[462]
—— vinegar, [461]—fresh water, [468]—salt water,[469]—in blighted wheat,[ibid.]
Ellis’s aquatic microscope,[6], [119]
—— refutes Buffon, &c.,[423]
Eggs of insects, [286]—tenthredo—hemerobius,[ibid.]—phalæna neustria, [287]—oestrus tarandi,[288]—ephemera—phryganea—libellula, [ibid.]—moths,[289]—bees—wasps—spiders—ants,[ibid.]
Elytra of insects,[204]
Ephemera, eyes of,[197]
Exuvia of insects, to prepare,[145]
Eye, nature of vision in,[28]
Eyes of insects, [193]—drone, [196]—silkworm,[ibid.]—libellula, [ibid.]—lobster, [197]—ephemera,[ibid.]
F.
Fat of insects, to prepare,[146]
Fibres, muscular, to prepare,[ibid.]
Fishes, their scales to examine,[147]
Flea described, [616]—remarks on,[note] [617]
Flies, to dissect eyes of,[145]
Fly, Spanish, its utility,[note] [175]
—— or perfect state of insects,[236]
—— spider, see [hippobosca equina]
Focus, what it is,[31]
Fontana, an early maker of microscopes,[3]
Food of polypes,[155]
—— insects, [291]—gryllus migratorius, [293]—oestrusbovis,[294]—equi—hæmorrhoidalis—veterinus—ovis, [note][294]—ichneumon fly,[295],
[note] [297]
Forceps for catching insects, figure of,[675]
Forficula auricularia, its wings, [143]—farther described,[205]
Frog, circulation of blood in,[150]
G.
Gay, quotation from,[note] [690]
Generation of aphides, [273]—Bonnet’s experiments on ditto,[274]—Richardson’s ditto,[275]
—— bees, [279]—Schirach’s account of,[280]—Debraw’s,[281]
Gerard, author of the Herbal, his credulity,[note] [347]
Globules, glass, applied to the microscope, [8]—manner of making them,[ibid.], [11]—by Butterfield, [9]—Di Torre,[10]—Gray,[12]
—— lenses described,[34]
—— micrometer, Coventry’s,[60]
Gnat, its proboscis to dissect, [144]—described, [187]—aformidable weapon, [note] [ibid.]—Barbut’s remedy for its sting,[188]—preventives recommended, [ibid.]—mischiefs occasioned by them at Oxford,[623]—formidable in the West Indies, [note] [189]—Hooke anadvocate for them—remarks on ditto,[ibid.]
—— farther described,[623]
Gray, his water microscope,[13]
Greeks not unacquainted with the single microscope, [3]—spectacles known to them,[ibid.]
Grew, on the interior structure of vegetables,[575]
Gryllus migratorius, [293]—mischiefs occasioned by, [note][684]—many seen in England,[ibid.]
H.
Habitation of insects,[299]
Haddock, scale of,[356]
Halteres of insects,[204]
Hartsoeker applies glass globules to the microscope,[8]
Heads of insects,[179]
Hemerobius perla, its wings described,[206]
Hemiptera order of insects, [219]—to collect,[683]
Hewson, his method of viewing particles of blood,[149]
Hieronymus, curious passage quoted from,[note] [178]
Hill (Dr.) writes on the interior parts of vegetables, [575]—on the rind,[576]—vessels between rind and bark, [580]—bark,[582]—cellular tissue, [585]—vasa propria interiora,[586]—blea, [ibid.]—wood, [587]—corona,[590]—pith, [592]—sap vessels, [594]—vasa propriaintima,[595]
—— (Mr. John) his improvement on the lucernal microscope,[84]
Hippobosca equina survives the loss of its head, [note][151]—its transformations,[261]
Hogarth, his five stages of cruelty,[note] [152]
Home, account of the particles of the blood,[note] [626]
Hooke applied glass globules to the microscope, [8]—his compound microscope,[15]—observations on dissecting insects, [142]—pleads in justification of gnats,[note] [189]—computation on the eyes of silkworm, [196]—onthe motion of butterflies wings,[209]
Hooper, quotation from,[710]
Hornet, to dissect sting of,[144]
Humanity towards insects recommended,[note] [152]
Hunter’s remarks on Schirach and Debraw’s experiments,[note] [285]
Hydræ or fresh water polypes, history of the discovery of, [357]—improperly calledinsects, [note] [363]—viridis—fusca—grisea,[365]—their food, [373]—generation, [379]—re-production,[382]—hydra pallens, [389]—hydatula, [390]—stentorea,[392]—socialis,[395]
Hymenoptera order of insects,[219]
—— —— —— to collect,[686]
I.
Jansens and son among the first introducers of the microscope,[2]
Jerboa, its agility, [note] [212]—kanguroo,[ibid.]
Jerom, curious passage from,[note] [178]
Imperfections of microscopic glasses,[46]
Improvements on lucernal microscope,[80]
—— compound microscope,[92], [99]
Infusions, animalcula in, to procure,[151]
—— of pepper, &c.,[153]
Insects, Lyonet’s table to dissect,[123]
—— Musschenbroeck’s ditto,[137]
—— wings to dissect, [143]—proboscis, [144]—eyes,[145]—exuvia, to prepare, [145]—muscular fibres,[146]—fat, [ibid.]—brains, [ibid.]—muscles,[ibid.]
—— their wonderful mechanism,[172]
—— preferred by Swammerdam to other parts of the creation,[ibid.]
—— not included in divine omniscience,[note] [178]
—— general description of, [178]—definition of,[179]—divisions, [ibid.]—head, [ibid.]—mouth,[180]—jaws, [181]—tongue and proboscis, [ibid.]—proboscisof a bee, [182]—butterfly, [186]—gnat, [187]—tabanus,[188]—antennæ, [190]—conjectures on their use,[note] [191], [192]—their characteristics,[193]—palpi—eyes, [ibid.]—reticulated eyes,[195]—drone—silk-worm—libellula—ephemera—experiments on the eyes,[197]—monoculus polyphemus, [198]—spider,[199]—stemmata,[ibid.]
—— trunk of—thorax—scutellum—sternum,[200]
—— abdomen—spiracula,[201]
—— limbs—wings, [201]—halterers, [204]—elytraand wings under ditto, [204]—wings of forficula auricularia, [205]—hemerobius perla,[206]—legs, [210]—tail and sting,[213]
—— distinguishing criteria of, [215]—conjectures on their sense of hearing andthe sounds proceeding from them, [note] [217]—Barbut’s opinion,[ibid.]—remarks on ditto,[ibid.]
—— classes or orders into which they are divided,[219]
—— transformation of, [220]—egg to larva, [222]—changeto pupa, [229]—preparation for change to perfect state, [234]—change to ditto,[236]—metamorphosis of silk-worm, [240]—beetle,[242]—rhinoceros beetle, [245]—musca chamæleon,[248]—libellula, [257]—cynips, [260]—aphides,[ibid.]—hippobosca equina, [261]—Bonnet’s theory of,[ibid.]
—— respiration of, [265]—experiments on by Lyonet,[267]—Musschenbroeck,[268]
—— —— in musca pendula,[269]
—— generation of—aphides, [272]—Bonnet’s experiments on,[274]—Richardson’s, [275]—Bees,[279]—Schirach’s account of, [280]—Debraw’s ditto,[281]—eggs of insects, [286]—tenthredo,[ibid.]—hemerobius—phalæna neustria—oestrustarandi—ephemera—phryganea—libellula—moths—bees—wasps—spiders—ants,[ibid.]
—— fecundity of, [290]—Reaumur’s calculation of that of the queen bee,[ibid.]—Lyonet’s on the generation of a moth, [291]—De Geer’s,[ibid.]
—— food of, [291]—gryllus migratorius, [293]—oestrusbovis, [294]—equi—hæmorrhoidalis—veterinus—ovis, [note][294]—ichneumon fly,[note] [295],
[297]
—— habitations of, [299]—spiders—aquaticbugs—gyrinus—podura—libellula—ephemera—phryganea—culices—tipulæ—notonecta—nepa,[300]—julus—scolopendra—oniscus, [301]—formica-leo,[note], [301]—solitary bees, [303]—ichneumon wasp,[306]—termites,[308]—caterpillars,[325]
—— internal parts of, [334]—Lyonet’s account of the caterpillar of thecossus, [ibid.]—muscles—spinal marrow, [339]—tracheal arteries,[340]—corpus crassum—oesophagus—ventricle, [342]—intestines,[343]
—— to collect and preserve, [665]—the pursuit recommended,[666]—method of procuring lepidoptera, [668]—in their caterpillar state,[670]—manner of breeding them, [671]—figure of breeding box,[ibid.]—to collect them in their chrysalis state, [673]—in their fly state,[674]—figure of the net, [ibid.]—figure of forceps,[675]—to manage them in their fly state, with a figure, [677]—coleoptera,to collect, [680]—hemiptera, [683]—neuroptera,[685]—hymenoptera, [686]—diptera, [687]—aptera,[ibid.]—proper time for collecting, [696]—instructions to form a cabinet,[693]—Drury’s collection described, [695]—remarks on collecting Asiaticinsects,[696]
Instrument for cutting sections of wood, by Adams, [19]—Cumming,[ibid.]—Custance, [ibid.]—described, [127]—appendage toditto,[128]
Jones, improved lucernal microscope, [80]—lanthorn microscope,[88]—improved compound microscope, [92]—most improved,[99]—apparatus to ditto, [101]—additional,[102]
Italians claim the invention of the microscope,[1]
Ivory micrometer by Coventry,[60]
K.
Kanguroo, its agility,[note] [212]
L.
Lamp, Argand’s, described,[69]
—— —— applied to lucernal microscope,[76]
Lanthorn microscope,[88]
Larva state of insects,[223]
Leaves of trees and plants to examine,[147]
Leeuwenhoek’s single microscope,[7]
—— description of blood vessels in eels,[149]
Legs of insects,[210]
Lenses, different kinds of, [34]—their properties,[ibid.]
Lepas anatifera, beard of, to prepare, [145]—described,[344]
Lepidoptera order of insects,[219]
—— —— to procure and preserve,[668]
Leucopsis dorsigera,[347]
Libellula, eyes of, to dissect,[145]
—— described,[195]
Lice, polypes infested with them,[156]
—— plant, see [aphides]
Lieberkühn, single microscope used by him,[6]
—— improves ditto,[20]
Light, to manage for microscope,[134]
Limbs of insects,[201]
Linnæus, his system commended,[168]
—— classification of insects,[219]
Lists of microscopic objects,[608], [698]
Lizard, its skin to examine,[147]
Lobster, eyes of, to dissect,[145]
—— insect, [348]—first noticed in this country by Mr. J. Adams,[348]—described by Martin—two in Mr. Marsham’s possession, [ibid.]—knownto Aristotle—to Wolphius—Scaliger—De Geer—Fabricius—four in the editor’s possession—a living onepresented to him—two found alive in Percy street—Rösel’s account of it—Seba probably mistaken,[note] [350]
Locusts, [293]—dreadful scourge,[note] [684]
—— many seen in England in 1748,[ibid.]
Louse, common, described,[619]
Lump-sucker described,[352]
Lyonet, single microscope used by him,[6]
—— anatomical microscope, [122]—method of dissecting,[141]—experiments on the respiration of insects, [267]—generation of a moth,[290]—description of the caterpillar of the cossus,[334]
M.
Magnifiers, botanical,[125]
Malpighi writes on the structure of vegetables,[575]
Marsham on the ichneumon fly,[note] [297]
Martin improves solar microscope,[20]
—— list of his tracts on the microscope,[note] [21]
—— applies slips of glass, &c. to microscopes,[60]
—— improved opake and transparent solar microscope, [106]—objects,[110]
Medicines, their operations attributed to animalcula!,[note] [433]
Medium, rare, [32]—dense,[ibid.]
Meloe monoceros described,[354]
Metamorphoses of insects,[220]
Micrometer needle described, [54]—how used,[55]
—— glass, pearl, &c. by Coventry, [60]—how used,[61]
—— —— —— a set accompanies Jones’s best microscope,[63]
Microscope, date of its invention, [1]—name of inventor not known,[ibid.]—its excellence, [2], [23]—early introduced by Jansens,[2]—one brought to England by Drebell, [ibid.]—made by Fontana in 1616,[3]—to prepare vegetable substances for,[158]
—— single, probably known to the Greeks and Romans, [3]—account of,[5]—rationale of, [40]—used by Leeuwenhoek, &c.,[6]—described, [7]—glass globules applied to, [8]—how made byButterfield, [9]—Di Torre, [10]—to make glass globules,[11]
—— water by Gray, [13]—extempore,[ibid.]
—— Swammerdam’s described,[138]
—— single, Wilson’s, or screw barrel, [115]—with a scroll and mirror,[117]—small, for opake objects, [118]—Ellis’s aquatic,[119]—Lyonet’s anatomical, [122]—Withering’s botanical,[123]—pocket botanical and universal,[124]
—— compound, by Hooke, Divinis, and Bonnani, [15]—Delebarre,[16]—Barker, [17]—Smith,[ibid.]
—— —— its principles, [42]—magnifying powers,[49]—experiments on ditto, [51]—how ascertained, [53]—ofmore general use than any other, [note] [89]—Cuff’s described,[ibid.]—apparatus to ditto, [90]—to use, [91]—chest,[note] [90]—Jones’s improved, [92]—apparatus to ditto,[96]—how to use, [98]—Jones’s most improved,[99]—apparatus, [101]—additional apparatus, [102]—how touse, [103]—Culpeper’s or three pillared, [104]—apparatus,[105]—to use,[ibid.]
—— lanthorn,[88]
—— solar, by Lieberkühn, [17]—improved by him,[20]—by Ziehr, [ibid.]—Martin, [ibid.]—its principles,[45]—as improved by Martin described, [106]—apparatus to,[109]—to use,[110]
—— lucernal, Adams’s, [21]—described, [64]—toexamine opake objects with, [71]—ansparent ditto, [74]—apparatus to,[77]—improvements on, by Jones, Prince and Hill,[80]
—— portable, and telescope,[125]
—— to prepare for observation, [130]—to prepare objects for,[137]
—— concise list of objects for, [608]—opake,[609]—transparent, [614]—copious list of ditto,[698]
Millepedes food for polypes,[155]
Minerals, to examine,[148]
Minute animals, their strength, activity, and vivacity,[note] [427]
—— shells, arrangement and description of,[629]
Monoculus Polyphemus, its eyes described,[198]
Montaigne’s remarks on kindness to animals,[note] [151]
Moths, wings of,[144], [207]
Motion of butterflies wings, experiments on, by Hooke, [209]—remarks on,[212]—dittoby Reaumur,[213]
Mouth of insects,[179]
Müller on animalcula infusoria,[428]
Münchhausen’s hypothesis,[421]
—— —— refuted by Ellis,[423]
Musca chamæleon, its transformation, [248]—pendula ditto,[256]—its respiration,[269]
Muscles and fibres of insects, to prepare,[146]
Musschenbroeck’s table for dissecting insects,[137]
—— experiments on their respiration,[268]
Musquetos, their sting formidable,[note] [189]
N.
Natural history, importance of,[167]
Needham, his hypothesis of animalcula in infusions, [421]—refuted,[423]
Needle micrometer,[54]
Net, figure of butterfly,[674]
Neuroptera order of insects, [219]—to collect,[685]
Notonecta, its wings,[143]
O.
Objects to prepare for the microscope,[137]
—— —— Swammerdam’s method,[ibid.]
—— —— Lyonet’s ditto,[141]
—— for the microscope, concise list of, [608]—copious list of,[698]
Observation, to prepare microscope for,[130]
Observations, Hooke’s on dissecting,[142]
—— on Hooke’s apology for gnats,[note] [189]
Omniscience of God denied with respect to insects, &c.,[note] [177]
Opake objects, to examine with the lucernal microscope, [71]—list of,[608]
Opake and transparent solar microscope, by Martin,[106]
—— small, microscope,[118]
Optical glasses, their several kinds, [34]—different effects,[ibid.]—their imperfections,[47]
Orders into which insects are divided,[219]
Ores and minerals to examine,[148]
Ox-fly, its proboscis described,[188]
Oxford, swarms of gnats which appeared at note, [188]—the mischiefs they occasioned,[ibid.]
P.
Palpi of insects described,[193]
Parrot-fish, scale of,[355]
Particles of blood to examine,[149]
—— —— their true form ascertained,[ibid.] and
[note] [626]
Paste eel described,[462]
Pearch, sea, scale of,[356]
Pearl micrometer, Coventry’s,[60]
Pediculus humanus described,[619]
Plancus on minute shells,[629]
Plant lice, see [aphides]
Plants, their leaves to examine,[147]
Pocket botanical and universal microscope,[124]
Polypes to procure and feed, [153]—infested with lice, [156]—topreserve in health, [ibid.]—to observe with accuracy, [157]—to preserve in sliders,[ibid.]—their food,[291]
Pores of skin to examine,[147]
Portable microscope and telescope,[125]
Proboscis of insects, to dissect, [144]—culex—tabanus—bee,[ibid.]—described, [181]—bee, [ibid.]—butterfly,[186]—gnat, [187]—tabanus,[188]
Prince, (Rev. Dr.) his improvement on lucernal microscope,[84]
Ptinus fatidicus,[note] [688]
—— pulsator,[ibid.]
Puceron, see [aphides]
Pulex aquaticus food for polypes,[155]
—— irritans described,[616]
Pupa, change of insects to,[229]
R.
Ray, incident, [32]—refracted,[ibid.]
Reaumur on the motion of insects,[212]
—— —— fecundity of queen bee,[290]
Redi, his observations on the production of flies,[174]
Reflections on cruelty to animals,[150],
[note] [ibid.]
Refraction, its principles, [32]—ascertained by experiments,[33]
Remarks on the substance of butterflies wings,[note] [207]
—— on Barbut’s opinion on the sense of hearing in insects,[note] [217]
—— on collecting Asiatic insects,[696]
Respiration of insects, [265]—experiments on, by Lyonet,[267]—Musschenbroeck,[268]
—— musca pendula,[269]
Richardson’s experiments on the generation of aphides,[275]
Rind of vegetables to prepare,[160]
Romans probably acquainted with the single microscope,[3]
—— spectacles known to them,[ibid.]
S.
Salts and saline substances, to prepare,[163]
—— their crystallization, [600]—what understood by it,[601]—phænomena of ditto, [602]—their various figures,[603]—Bergman’s account of their forms,[605]
—— list of, for microscopic observation,[710]
Sap vessels of plants, to fill,[162]
Scales of fish to examine, [147]—eel, to prepare,[ibid.]
—— parrot fish, [355]—sea pearch, haddock—West-India pearch—solefish,[356]
Scutellum of insects,[200]
Sections of wood, instrument for cutting, [127]—appendage to ditto,[128]
Seeds, vegetable, a descriptive list of a variety of, [645]—lithospermum,[ibid.]—cyminum, [646]—papaver, [647]—cardirus,[ibid.]—plantago, [648]—staphis agria, [649]—anisum,[ibid.]—fœniculum, [651]—grana Paradisi,[652]—petroselinum, [653]—petroselinum Macedonicum,[654]—coriandrum, [655]—seseli, [ibid.]—hyoscyamus,[657]—cicer, [658]—laurus, [659]—ficoides afra,[660]—palma aricefera, [661]—juniperus,[ibid.]—santonicum, [662]—scabiosa,[663]
Sentiments of learned men in earlier times on minute parts of creation,[note] [177]
Shakspeare, quotation from, on the feeling of insects, [note][150]—parody on a passage in,[note] [690]
Shells, to view, [148]—minute, arrangement and description of,[629]—manner of procuring them, [632]—observations on,[ibid.]—serpula, [633]—dentale, [635]—patella,[ibid.]—helix, [ibid.]—turbo, [636]—trochus,[638]—buccinum, [639]—voluta, [ibid.]—bulla,[640]—nautilus, [ibid.]—Mytilus, [642]—anomia,[643]—arca, [ibid.]—cardium, [644]—lepas,[ibid.]—echinus, [ibid.]—asterias,[645]
Shoots, vegetable, to obtain,[159]
Silk-worm, its eyes, [196]—metamorphosis,[240]
Skin, pores of, to examine,[147]
—— of sole-fish, [356]—lizards,[147]
Smith, his compound microscope,[17]
Sole-fish, scale of, [356]—skin of,[ibid.]
Spanish-fly, its utility in medicine and commerce,[note] [175]
Spider, eyes of, [199]—described,[621]
Spiracula of insects,[201]
Stemmata of ditto,[199]
Sternum of ditto,[200]
Stillingfleet, his remarks on the importance of natural history,[331]
Sting of bee to dissect, [144]—described,[214]
Stings of insects,[213]
Strength of minute animals,[note] [427]
Swammerdam uses the single microscope, [6]—his method of preparing objects,[137]—his microscope described,[138]—manner of dissecting,[ibid.]
Swift, quotation from, on the death-watch,[note] [689]
System, Linnean, commended,[168]
T.
Tabanus, its proboscis described,[188]
Tail of insects,[213]
Telescope, portable microscope and,[125]
Termes pulsatorium,[note] [688]
Termites or white ants, history of,[308]
Thorax of insects,[201]
Thrips physapus described,[350]
Timber, organization of,[574]
Tincture of cochineal, to prepare,[161]
Tongue of insects,[181]
Transformation of insects, [220]—rhinoceros beetle,[245]—musca chamæleon, [248]—pendula,[256]—libellula, [257]—cynips, [260]—aphides,[ibid.]—hippobosca equina, [261]—theory of, by Bonnet,[ibid.]
Transparent objects to examine with the lucernal microscope, [74]—to transmit on a screen,[75]
—— —— list of,[614]
Trees, leaves of, to examine,[147]
Trunk of insects,[201]
Tubularia campanulata,[411]
V.
Vegetable substances, to prepare for the microscope, [159]—young shoots,[ibid.]—rind, [160]—blea, [162]—sap vessels, to fill,[162]
—— seeds, descriptive list of,[645]
Vegetables, their beauty and perfection,[574]
Vinegar eel described,[461]
Vision, its principles shewn by experiments,[27]
Vivacity of minute animals note,[427]
Vorticellæ described, [396]—anastatica, [397]—pyraria,[400]—cratægaria, [ibid.]—opercularia,[401]—umbellaria, [402]—berberina, [406]—digitalis,[ibid.]—convallaria, [407]—urceolaris, [408]—tubulariacampanulata,[411]
W.
Walker on minute shells, [630]—commended by Sir Jos. Banks,[ibid.]—extracts from,[633]
Wasp, its sting to dissect,[145]
Water, eel in fresh, [468]—in salt ditto,[469]
Wheat, eel in blighted,[467]
Wheel animal,[549]
Willughby detects a pretended discoverer of animalcula,[note] [432]
Wilson, his screw-barrel microscope, [115]—ditto with scroll,[117]
Wings of insects to dissect,[143]
—— forficula auricularia, [ibid.]—notonecta,[ibid.]—butterflies and moths, [144], [207]—described,[201]—hemerobius perla,[206]
Wisdom, divine, displayed in the creation, [267], [174]—providence,[174]—benevolence,[175]
Withering, his botanical microscope,[115]
Wood, instrument for cutting sections of, [127],—appendage to,[128]
Worm, silk, its eyes described,[196]
Worms, red, food for polypes,[155]
Z.
Ziehr improves solar microscope,[20]

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