Every Boy's Book

Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

The Compound Microscope

4 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

The Compound Microscope

We have already described the simpler forms of magnifying instruments, together with the best method of using them. We now purpose to…

The Compound Microscope: Take

Two points are now needed; the first being to get the leaf flat, so as to avoid the undulation, and the second being to throw a proper…

The Compound Microscope: Canada

After you have practised yourself well in the handling of the microscope, your ambition will take another step, and lead you to the…

The Compound Microscope: Sometimes

Sometimes the cells run out longitudinally into cylinders, and attain the really enormous length of three inches; sometimes they become…

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