My microscope and some objects from my cabinet : a simple introduction to the study of 'the infinitely little' / by a Quekett club-man.

  • White, T. Charters (Thomas Charters), 1828-1916.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: My microscope and some objects from my cabinet : a simple introduction to the study of 'the infinitely little' / by a Quekett club-man. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    different designations, even of genera. It may be so, but into such speculations we need not enter, and they would be even foreign to our purpose, which is simply to see and understand certain specimen articles, if we may venture on the term, from nature's manufactory. We will notice that the purple spot on the leaf is caused by the parasite having ex- hausted the chlorophyll in its neighbourhood; the final result would, of course, be the destruction of the leaf. This one we have saved from such an end, and can as easily as possible dry it perfectly between blotting- paper and mount it as a permanent object for the cabinet. We may regard this ^cidium as the repre- sentative of a multitude of plant parasites, which rejoice in a great variety of learned names, such as Puccinia, Rxstelia, Perider- mium, Endophyllum, Coleosporium, etc., etc. All are beautiful, many rare, and a few obtainable almost anywhere but in the street; wherever there is wood, leaf, water, or hedge.