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--• • Objects For Tlie Miwoscope & Sons ...
as the means of increased acquaintance with , the _worts of : Nature * _, and of yet closer communioni with the great Author of Creation ;
_Jte : extract from the preface ; willi bestl explain the _writers intention . t Microscope hem " The selves chief * and to end , he not 1 of used as this * ? a as . new _mere han p dbooks lan scientific ofmine are catalogu in is . the to g e i presence ve w ith H : andboo hard of the names k f obj or e and th cts e ;
noticeswhich ,, presuppose , a greater amount of scientific _^ knowledge than young , students ever possess . involuntaril "It is written ided for the young in of _lioth writing sexes to ; possibl awaken m deeper y own interest daughter _^ than
hasmi the mere beautiful ly scientific ic y moth gu as the arr angement expression my onl pen a cur could of ious Divin : g wonder ive , , e to Wisdom kindle at its , minute a hig h ive and with f ect l y ions love little but of y per
an the a g croscop i l ance ob jected ject before i preparat ts former , us ion lif of To e animal and sit for deve life an l _^ op a hour ment hint at ; of : th l the so e mi t mystery o give , t when hat : an li d looking beneat , slide at h
. croscopepass t intellect after ion ! for slide the of upon man great the to enter sp stage irit within with scientific superficial , us ; neither research attentio is it into safe n , is the . for not organisms the a worth finite y and occupa systems frail
and theories of lifewithout upon the brightening influence of forethoug , as tot he who hath for woven whi , ch the all intricate and espe web cially of the creation human , and frame afterthoug , is so fearfull ht & s to y *
and wonder purpose fully made . " , , The style in which . ¦) this little book is written is singularly ,
attractive . The writer is so _mueli . in love with her ; subject , that it is impossible ; not to catch some of her enthusiasmwhile her
, sympathies are so wide as -to embrace and touch upon manytopics not immediately connected with the matter : treated * o £ It is
evident that slie has been self tang / it , , not booh taught . Her observations are the result ; of personal investigationand thus her remarks
, are full of a freshness and : an originality to which mere compilation can never ; attain . Step fay step we are led to consider ; the
various objects ; most adapted to microscopic investigations . " _\^ _e are first taught how to * use the instrument itself , and to prepare
the objects in the simplest and most inexpensive manner . We are _^ then shown the wonders of the vegetable kingdom , beginning with
the construction of the cell _, the rudimentary , principle of bodies _,, up to the complex organization ; of the fungi . In the animal
kingdom , especial attention is given to insects . The chapter on the Microscopic Moths touches upon a subject very little understood ,,
and the observations are as curious as they are interesting . Not less so is the Zoophyte ; in which animal and vegetable life is
so mysteriously involved . Sea-weeds would cease to be merely pretty fibrous branchesfit ! for making marine bouquets , did
, we realise their exquisite construction and variety ; and we are _< made reverently to pause and consideras we contemplate those
, preparations which teach us something of the mysteries of bur own f £ ame .
An extract from the chapter on Microscopic Moths will give
an idea of the writer s method of popularizing her subject .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/62/
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