The Microscope. Its History, Construction, and Application 15th ed.: Being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopical scienceHogg, Jabez
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The Microscope. Its History, Construction, and Application 15th ed.: Being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopical science
Hogg, Jabez
Microscopy; Natural history
The Abbe model of camera lucida has been brought into use because the
projected image can be better illuminated, and is consequently so much
brighter. This form is now made in aluminium by Messrs. Watson & Sons.
In place of the image being traced by projection on paper, the reverse
is the case, both the paper and pencil are projected into the field of
view. The mirror reflects the paper on to the silvered surface of a
prism placed over the eye-lens of the eye-piece of the microscope, and
it is thereby conveyed to the eye. There is a central opening in the
silvering through which microscopic vision is obtained. It is fitted
in a new manner by means of a cloth-lined adapter, fitting over the
outside of the microscope tube; this saves all trouble in centring and
ensures concentricity. Where the instrument has capped eye-pieces, the
camera lucida must be adapted to the eye-piece, the cap being removed.
The apparatus can be disconnected from the fitting adapter by means of
a sliding pin, and readily replaced, or can be lifted over out of the
way, as shown in the drawing. Being made almost entirely in aluminium
it is very much lighter than other forms of apparatus, and does not
cause vibration. It can be used with the microscope _at any angle_, the
only necessity being that the paper on which the sketch is made should
be kept at the same angle as the instrument.
Micro-Photography.
Micro-photography or photo-micrography, as it is indifferently termed,
has, to a very considerable extent, superseded the use of the camera
lucida for the delineation of images seen under the microscope. I may
claim to be among the first workers with the microscope (1841) to prove
beyond a doubt that the camera could be made to render invaluable aid
to the microscopist, whereby a great saving of time might be effected,
and a drawing obtained with greater accuracy than that of the pencil of
the draughtsman.
It was about 1864-5 that Dr. Woodward’s earlier micro-photographs
were first seen in London. His skill in the manipulation of the
microscope had been long known. His first series of photographs of test
diatoms created, I remember, quite a sensation; they have probably
never been surpassed. These were taken by sun-light, magnesium, and
electric-light. I was the recipient of a series taken at a later date
(1870), and which, bound in quarto volume, are almost as perfect in
definition as any of a later date taken by oil-immersion objectives.
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