With a simple microscope and this book you can embark on 59 exciting adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular level; learn how to prepare specimens and slides. 142 illustrations.
Unabridged republication of the original (1941) edition.

Table of Contents for Adventures with a Microscope

Introduction
Useful Supplies for Your Laboratory Table and Shelf
ADVENTURE
No.
1 We Examine Some Common Objects
2 We Become Crystal Gazers
3 We Hunt a One-Eyed Monster
4 We Learn the Meaning of Privacy
5 We Follow in the Footsteps of Hercules
6 We Learn How a Fly Walks Upside Down
7 We Seed the Famous Amœba
8 We Meet with a Puzzle of Natural History
9 We Dig for Bones in an Ancient Graveyard
10 We Make the Acquaintance of the Desmids
11 We Find Beauty in Unexpected Places
12 We Stab Ourself for Love of Science
13 We Go Marketing with a Honey Bee
14 We Learn What It Means to be Stung
15 We Meet with an Optical Illusion
16 We Make the Acquaintance of Eylais
17 We Take a Lesson in Food Analysis
18 We Raid Our Kitchen
19 We Go Bear Hunting
20 We Discover a Zoological Radio Station
21 We Come Upon a Strange Partnership
22 We Meet Some Relatives of the Amœba
23 We Encounter Some Strange Animals
24 We Learn the Use of Perfume
25 We Test Our Morning Coffee
26 We Learn Something About Sponges
27 We Find Out What Chalk Is Made of
28 We Inquire into the Nature of Yeast
29 We Go Microbe Hunting
30 We Perform a Spicy Experiment
31 We Dig for Worms
32 We Meet Some More Worms
33 We Receive a Pleasant Surprise
34 We Examine a Moss Plant
35 We Make a Study of Toadstools
36 We Become Farmers
37 We View the Most Primitive Insects
38 We Learn to Distinguish Textile Fibers
39 We Trace the Life History of Ferns
40 We Observe the Circulation of Blood
41 We Do a Bit of Surgery
42 We Meet a Champion
43 We Inspect a Spinning Machine
44 We Acquire Insight into the Structure of Roots
45 We Examine an Extraordinary Pipe-Line
46 We Tour Through One of Nature's Factories
47 We Learn That Flowers Are Not Merely Ornamental
48 We Investigate the Structure of Paper
49 We Train Our Lens on Two Familiar Creatures
50 We Behold an Animal That Swims on Its Back
51 We Receive a Lesson in Evolution
52 We Perform a Major Operation
53 We Prove That Appearances Are Sometimes Deceptive
54 We Are Intrigued by a Delightful Relationship
55 We Look at the Sun Animalcule
56 We Approach the Science of Criminal Detection
57 We Solve a Mystery
58 We Observe a Wonderful Provision of Nature
59 "We See What Makes Animals "Go"

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