The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

in so important an instrument as tll

hailed with please
monthly numbers

to the risi

w before us,

evidence of what the journal is intended to convey. To the
physiologist, the anatomist, the botanist, the zoologist, the
microscopist, and general enquirer, the work offers informa-
tion of no mean value ; information not only connected
with, or the result of, the labours of our own coun-
trymen, ably and judiciously selected, but a fund of mat-
ter, given in an abstract form, collected from the lead-
ing scientific journals of France, Germany, America, Sec.,
such, indeed, as has not been hitherto given to the scientific
public in such quantities, and in such rapid succession, in
any journal hitherto presented to the public.
To pass in hasty review of the facts detailed in the Micro-
scopic Journal is all we can at present do ; and we find that
it is to Mr. J. Jackson Lister men of science are indebted
for great improvements in achromatic object glasses ; to
Mr. Carpenter for first presenting to the public gaze the so-
lar microscope ; and to Mr. J. T. Cooper for introducing the
hydro-oxygen light, instead of the uncertain solar light, in
this country, for the " illustration of microscopic power."
To Mr. Bowerbank, amongst others, for diffusing in the me-
tropolis that growing taste for microscopic research, charac-
teristic of the present age.

The work contains some valuable comments on the struc-
ture of fossil teeth, by Professor Owen, and on the structure
of horny sponges of commerce, by Bowerbank. From it we
learn the existence of living creatures in the cells of plants—
the colouring

matter of

ates, cornelians, &c., to depend,

according to Turpin, on minute plants (algce) ; that wine.
rum, and sugar destroy many of the animalcules met with in
drinkable water, while all chemical substances which do not
change the composition of the water, exercise no influence
on the minute animalcules, not even the strongest poisons,
if they are not more than mechanically mixed with it ; the
growth of fungi in the pustules of a skin disease, and even
in the eggs of snails ; that microscopic plants occur in snow;
that the meteoric paper which fell near Rauden, in Curland,
in 1686, is composed of myriads of animalcule ; that the
hair, instead of being hollow, as formerly imagined, is, in
so stated by Turpin, when treating of
the microscopic character of milk, that an organic body
g more than a mass of infusoria. We also
verwo

reality, soil

consists of

learn, that in I

nosses, and chara, spermatic
e been seen in active motion ; that the

animalcules

blighted

ears of wheat, constituting what is

termed e

Ales, or pepper-corn, is produced by

a multitucl

'ules,(vWio

of a cottony mass in the grain ; that

met with

the bed of the river

the whit

Annan is du

acicula

)odies, arranged in a stel-
Tins of animalcules called

laced ti

synegra

les of crocodile (c. lucius) has a
f blood than any other animal; that

larger sized gle

the gree

ters is due, not to the presence

of microscopic bein

timed vibrio ostrearius, as formerly
which is different from all
iitherto noticed ; that the berg-
sts of several species of
which Ehrenberg has considered
Is of infusoria, and that this quantity
s it a preference as an article of food
clays used for a similar purpose by
t the globules of the human blood

considered, but to animal matte

other org,

meal of S

Lapland

minute orga.

ed or mulberry appearance ;
le yellow spot in the human eye
Lulea) nearly re-embles shagreen, formerly used by
B,t for the covers of cases ; that the yeast of beer

corrug

actually cons

of small fungi in a state of vegetation, and

a kind of vegetation of these plants in