Essays on the Microscope: Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.Adams, George
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Essays on the Microscope: Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
Adams, George
Insects -- Early works to 1800; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800
Fig. 5. Tooth and pinion microscope ibid.
Fig. 14. Common flower and insect microscope note 125
VII. A. Cuff’s double constructed microscope and apparatus 89
B. Ellis’s aquatic microscope 119
VIII. Fig. 1-6. Portable microscope and telescope with
apparatus 125
Fig. 7, 8. Botanical magnifiers ibid.
IX. Fig. 1, 2. Engine for cutting sections of wood, and
appendage 127
Fig. 3, 4. Jones’s improved lucernal microscope and
apparatus 80
Fig. 5, 7. The Rev. Dr. Prince’s and Mr. Hill’s
improvements on the illuminating lenses and lamp of the
lucernal microscope 84
Fig. 6. Lanthorn microscope and screen 88
X. Fig. 1, 2. Nest of the phalæna neustria.--Fig. 3, 4.
Vertical section of ditto.
Fig. 5, 6. Horizontal section 287
Fig. 7, 8. Scales of the parrot fish, 355.--Fig. 9, 10.
Scales of sea perch 356
XI. Fig. 1, 2, 3. Larva of the musca chamæleon 248
Fig. 4, 5. Eels in blighted wheat 469
Fig. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11. Paste eel 462
Fig. 7. Vinegar eel 461
XII. Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4. Dissection of the caterpillar of the
phalæna cossus 336
Fig. 5, 6, 7. Dissection of the head of the caterpillar 337
XIII. Fig. 1, 2. Beard of the lepas anatifera 344
Fig. 3, 4. Collector of the bee 182
XIV. Fig. 1, 2. Wing of the forficula auricularia 143 and 205
Fig. 2 to 47. Magnified figures of minute and rare
shells 629
XV. Fig. 1, 2. Wing of the hemerobius perla 206
Fig. 1 to 46. Microscopic views of a variety of
vegetable seeds 645
XVI. Fig. 1, 2, and B, C, D, E. Proboscis of the tabanus 188
Fig. 3, 4. Cornea of the libellula 197
Fig. 5, 6. Cornea of the lobster ibid.
Fig. 7, 8, E, F, H, I. Feathers of the wings of the
sphinx stellatarum 208 and 627
XVII. Fig. 1, 2, 3. Leucopsis dorsigera 347
XVIII. Fig. 1 and 6. The lobster insect 348
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