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 Microscope

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

The Microscope

At any time of the year or hour of the day there are few pursuits more interesting, and at the same time instructive, than the study of…

The Microscope: Indian

We are now about to suggest a very simple piece of mechanism, by which the pocket-lens can be converted into a microscope that will serve…

The Microscope: Push

Its application is as simple as its structure. Bend the tongue over, so as to form a loop, and push the end through the short tube. Slip…

The Microscope: Entomostraca

After the pond or stream or ditch has been well searched, the bottle should be roughly examined, by means of a pocket-lens, and the…

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