The micrographic dictionary : a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects / by J.W. Griffith and Arthur Henfrey.
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The micrographic dictionary : a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects / by J.W. Griffith and Arthur Henfrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![work. With regard to the engravings in the text, a portion have been selected, after comparison with the objects themselves, from the excellent illustrations of the Mikroskopische Anatomie of Kolliker. Most of the woodcuts of plants are careful reproductions of drawings contained in original works and memoirs by Kiitzing, Corda, Tulasne, Bischoff, Bruch and Schimper, and others, prepared for Payer's Botanique Cnjptogamique, to which, as to almost every illustration in this volume, the magnifying power used has been added. Had not these beautiful woodcuts been accessible to the publisher, it would have been impos- sible to have provided this work so richly with illustrations. The Authors have much pleasure in acknowledging their obligations to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Messrs. Westwood, W. S. Dallas, SoUitt, and Tuffen West, for the loan of authentic specimens, or for information kindly afforded on various subjects, and to Dr. William Francis, for constant advice and assist- ance during the printing of the work. JOHN WILLIAM GRIFFITH. ARTHUR HENFREY. London, December ]855. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. I REGRET that the task of writing the Preface to this Second Edition of the Micrographic Dictionary falls upon me alone, the hand of Death having just been laid upon my distinguished and most amiable friend and coadjutor. It will, however, be satisfactory to the reader to know that the whole had passed under the hands of the late lamented Professor Henfrey, and that he had taken his share in correcting for the press all but the last three sheets. The work has been revised throughout, and has received considerable altera- tions and additions. The progress of Structural and Physiological Botany was always assiduously watched by Professor Henfrey; and the articles on Botanical subjects have been greatly enriched by the additions which his extensive and accurate knowledge suggested to him. Great improvements have also been introduced into many of the articles relating to the Animal Kingdom, especially in the classes Insecta, Tunicata, Polyzoa, and Foraminifera, some members of which have lately attracted much attention. The new figures added are also numerous. The critical reader will, it is hoped, consider that the great range of subjects embraced, renders it impossible to do justice to all of them; and in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21938398_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
