Excerpt from The Microscope: Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Subjects for Exhibition
That these works are not read attentively or well understood by many young persons, who now purchase Microscopes and collect objects, seems probable from the remarks which are made and the questions that are asked when looking at preparations from the Vegetable and the Animal Kingdom. We not unfrequently hear the section of an Echinus spine pronounced "very pretty, exactly like a crochet pattern" - the Echinus itself being an unknown thing. Spicules of Holothuria or Gorgonia are brilliant little clubs and crosses; but what a Holothuria is they cannot imagine. The foot of a Dytiscus, with its cluster of suckers, is like the eye of a peacock's feather; cells of spiral fibre nothing more than coils of variegated wire; and the head of Rhingia, with its wonderful eyes, is looked at as a beautiful piece of network. It is the design of this Catalogue to give simply that elementary knowledge of vegetable and animal physiology, which will enable the young student to understand the Slides in the Object-box, and excite the desire to learn more from better books.
It is also hoped that many will be led to purchase the preparations of Whole-mounted Insects, and by the careful study of them take the first steps into the wide and pleasant field of Natural History. As the ear is educated by the study of music, so the eye is educated by a habit of observation.
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