Verwandte Artikel zu Directions for collecting and preparing fossils
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...touching or interfering with one another. They are especially advantageous for keeping animals alive in sea water, letting them remain at rest until thoroughly distended; for killing by different methods, either slowly or quickly, and for hardening objects in different solutions until they are transferred to permanent receptacles. These crystallizing dishes have ground edges so that they may be tightly covered with disks of glass, when desirable. For hardening worms and other elongated animals use may be made of long rectangular vessels covered with a sheet of glass, or of the zinc trays to be described later. It is also necessary to have a number of ordinary beakers (or battery jars) of different sizes, which serve for the preserving of animals alive, tubes for the reception of small animals, pipettes for the extraction of minute forms from jars of water, glass rods, reagent bottles, graduated cylinders, etc. For preserving animals, especially fish, "of a size too great for such glass receptacles as have been mentioned, a rectangular case or box of zinc with a shallow trough around the margin is very useful. The cover, likewise of zinc, has its edge made to fit into the trough. To prevent evaporation the trough may be filled with water and a layer of oil. The cover has an opening in the middle to permit the escape of the air which is compressed under it by closing the box. This opening is provided with a cork. It must be acknowledged that these boxes have the disadvantage that, after a time, the zinc becomes corroded, probably by some acid formed in the alcohol through the action of dead animal matter. It is a good plan to protect the metal box by an exterior wooden case. In place of the rectangular vessels ot glass for hardening animals of elongated ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...touching or interfering with one another. They are especially advantageous for keeping animals alive in sea water, letting them remain at rest until thoroughly distended; for killing by different methods, either slowly or quickly, and for hardening objects in different solutions until they are transferred to permanent receptacles. These crystallizing dishes have ground edges so that they may be tightly covered with disks of glass, when desirable. For hardening worms and other elongated animals use may be made of long rectangular vessels covered with a sheet of glass, or of the zinc trays to be described later. It is also necessary to have a number of ordinary beakers (or battery jars) of different sizes, which serve for the preserving of animals alive, tubes for the reception of small animals, pipettes for the extraction of minute forms from jars of water, glass rods, reagent bottles, graduated cylinders, etc. For preserving animals, especially fish, "of a size too great for such glass receptacles as have been mentioned, a rectangular case or box of zinc with a shallow trough around the margin is very useful. The cover, likewise of zinc, has its edge made to fit into the trough. To prevent evaporation the trough may be filled with water and a layer of oil. The cover has an opening in the middle to permit the escape of the air which is compressed under it by closing the box. This opening is provided with a cork. It must be acknowledged that these boxes have the disadvantage that, after a time, the zinc becomes corroded, probably by some acid formed in the alcohol through the action of dead animal matter. It is a good plan to protect the metal box by an exterior wooden case. In place of the rectangular vessels ot glass for hardening animals of elongated ...
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