Essays on the microscope

containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes, a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits and economy, an account of the various species and singular properies of the Hydrae and Vorticellae, a description of three hundred and seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects, a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope.

by George Adams