Download or read book The American Monthly Microscopical Journal 1897 Vol 18 written by Romyn Hitchcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1897, Vol. 18: Containing Contributions to Biology While the idea of the arrangement in the experiment below detailed is suggested from a study of the Abbe form of apertometer, it is essentially different in half the technique. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the instrument and in the hope that I may make the proposed modification plainer, it may not be amiss to attempt a short explanation of its working, particularly as this is not done in the Zeiss catalogue. It consists essentially of (a) an auxiliary objective and (b) the plate glass semicircular and prismatic disc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American Monthly Microscopical Journal Vol 18 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 18: Containing Contributions to Biology; For 1897 Owing to the high death rate of these Indians from tuberculosis, he became interested in their vital statistics and published a paper in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal entitled "The Vital Statistics of an Apache Indian Community" in which their statistics for five years were compiled, and which is of interest as probably being the only accurate vital statistics of an Indian community ever published. From New Orleans, Dr. Borden was transferred to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island, and from there to his present station, Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Borden first began work in Microscopy when attending his first course of medical lectures. At that time a three years graded course of study and practical work in histology and patholog were required but in few of the medical colleges of the United States of which the Columbian University was one, and as he became interested in microscopical work, the graded course gave him more time to follow his studies in that line than was available to the average medical student. After entering the Medical Department of the Army he continued his microscopical work and soon began work in photomicrography. He is the author of a number of monographs on subjects connected with general and military medicine, histology, microscopical technique, photomicrography, and photography, and he is a member of the Associations of Military Surgeons of the United States, and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Sourcebook in Forensic Serology Immunology and Biochemistry written by Robert E. Gaensslen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Painting Techniques Materials and Studio Practice written by Arie Wallert and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Download or read book The American Monthly Microscopical Journal Vol 12 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 12: Containing Contributions to Biology, for 1891 Nor do the valves separate along the raphe or median line, but along the line of junction or suture. If the reader will turn over a page or two to the conspectus, he will see it stated by H. L. Smith, of Tribe I, Raphidieae, for example: "Frustules, mostly bacillar in s. v., always with a distinct raphe on one or both valves." (Italics mine.) Thus the two statements do not agree, and that on p. x will be likely to give the student a very different idea of what is meant by the raphe. But to return to our article. The trouble has all come, in my opinion, from calling the inner portion of the valve a hoop at all. For it suggests at once a barrel-hoop, something which is free at both edges from that which it encloses; which is not usually the case with the diatom hoop, to say the least. It is a misleading term, and is bound to confuse the student. It would be much better, therefore, it seems to me, to drop it altogether, or to speak of this piece as that portion of the membrane of each valve which when separated from the valve has the shape of a hoop. For as long as it is attached to the valve it is not a hoop, but the continuation of the valve itself. Finding this portion, however, at times detached, and shaped like a hoop, observers have thought there was only one hoop to each frustule, and that it bound the two valves together, whereas the truth is that there is a so-called hoop to each valve, and the hoops found in settlings of the Diatomaceae did not come each from a frustule but each from a valve, that is, two from each frustule. (There may be a few exceptions, but in my opinion the above will hold as a general statement.) Now, I am inclined to believe that very few amateurs have had the occular demonstration of this fact. Having to write upon the subject, and finding it impossible to reconcile the figures with what Carpenter said, I went to my slides again, and with the binocular, and almost the first peep at Isthmia showed me that the drawings were faulty in representing the upper and lower edges of the two valves as continuous lines instead of broken ones. And then I took down Schmidt's plates and the whole thing was as clear as day. And my advice to the student is to do the same thing: to pick out all his slides of Isthmia, Biddulphia, and Triceratium, and using the binocular, look sharp at the upper and lower edges of the hoop, and he will soon see that each is not one continuous line, but is formed by two lines, one of which is inside the other. And then if he is fortunate he will find some frustules where the valves have partly separated, and he will find that each valve has its band or hoop, and that it forms one continuous piece with the valve. And when he has done this he will have done something that is better than resolving Amphipleura, for he will have gained a definite idea of the structure of the diatom frustule. And this is a point that cannot be too strongly insisted upon, since even the Micrographic Dictionary has gone through edition after edition without stating or figuring the matter correctly. The first thing then for the student to do is to get a correct idea of the way the two valves are put together, and to do this he must not rely upon the figures in the Micrographic or in Carpenter, but study carefully the actual diatoms with the binocular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com"
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Download or read book Systema Porifera written by John N.A. Hooper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research whilst compiling this book has uncovered a fauna about twice the size as that previously published in the literature and consequently Systema Porifera revises and stabilizes the systematics of the phylum to accommodate this new knowledge in a contemporary framework. Practical tools (key illustrations, descriptions of character) are provided to facilitate the assignment of approximately 680 extant and 100 fossil genera. Systema Porifera is unique making sponge taxonomy widely available at the practical level of classification (genera, families, order). It is a taxonomic revision of sponges and spongiomorphis (such as sphinctozoans and archaeocyathans) based on re-evaluation of type materials and evidence. It is also a practical guide to sponge identification providing descriptions and illustrations of characters and interpretation of their importance to systematics. Systema Porifera addresses many long standing nomenclatural problems and provides a sound baseline for future debate on sponges and their place in time and space. Systema Porifera describes 3 classes, 7 subclasses, 24 orders, 127 families and 682 valid genera of extant sponges (with over 1600 nominal generic names and an additional 500 invalid names treated). Treatment of the fossil fauna is less comprehensive or critical, although 6 classes, 30 orders, 245 families and 998 fossil genera are mentioned. Keys to all recent and many fossil taxa are provided.
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Download or read book From Research to Manuscript written by Michael J. Katz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Research to Manuscript, written in simple, straightforward language, explains how to understand and summarize a research project. It is a writing guide that goes beyond grammar and bibliographic formats, by demonstrating in detail how to compose the sections of a scientific paper. This book takes you from the data on your desk and leads you through the drafts and rewrites needed to build a thorough, clear science article. At each step, the book describes not only what to do but why and how. It discusses why each section of a science paper requires its particular form of information, and it shows how to put your data and your arguments into that form. Importantly, this writing manual recognizes that experiments in different disciplines need different presentations, and it is illustrated with examples from well-written papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects. As a textbook or as an individual tutorial, From Research to Manuscript belongs in the library of every serious science writer and editor.
Download or read book Introduction to Microscopy by Means of Light Electrons X Rays or Acoustics written by Theodore G. Rochow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following three printings of the First Edition (1978), the publisher has asked for a Second Edition to bring the contents up to date. In doing so the authors aim to show how the newer microscopies are related to the older types with respect to theoretical resolving power (what you pay for) and resolution (what you get). The book is an introduction to students, technicians, technologists, and scientists in biology, medicine, science, and engineering. It should be useful in academic and industrial research, consulting, and forensics; how ever, the book is not intended to be encyclopedic. The authors are greatly indebted to the College of Textiles of North Carolina State University at Raleigh for support from the administration there for typing, word processing, stationery, mailing, drafting diagrams, and general assistance. We personally thank Joann Fish for word process ing, Teresa M. Langley and Grace Parnell for typing services, Mark Bowen for drawing graphs and diagrams, Chuck Gardner for photographic ser vices, Deepak Bhattavahalli for his work with the proofs, and all the other people who have given us their assistance. The authors wish to acknowledge the many valuable suggestions given by Eugene G. Rochow and the significant editorial contributions made by Elizabeth Cook Rochow.
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Download or read book The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
