 | 1856 - 482 pages
...case with some specimens from the " infusorial deposits" of California. Some of these I endeavored to break up, by boiling in water and in acids, and...remove without destroying any but the most minute shells of the Diatoms. As the case appeared a desperate one, a "heroic remedy" was applied, which was... | |
 | Andrew Pritchard - Desmidiaceae - 1861 - 1072 pages
...particularly the case with some specimens from the ' infusorial deposits ' of California. Some of these I endeavoured to break up by boiling in water and...the adherence might be due to a slight portion of a silicious cement, which the cautious use of an alkaline solution might remove without destroying any... | |
 | Cytology - 1856 - 418 pages
...particularly the case with some specimens from the " infusorial deposits " of California. Some of these I endeavoured to break up, by boiling in water and...remove without destroying any but the most minute shells of the Diatoms. As the case appeared a desperate one, a " heroic remedy " was applied, which... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 592 pages
...York, found some masses of siliceous matter, obtained from Uiatomaceous deposits, which he in vain, endeavoured to break up by boiling in water and in acids, and by repeated freezing and thawing. At length he boiled the lumps in a strong solution of caustic alkali,... | |
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... cannot be diffused in water, (for the purpose of mounting in balsam,) without a degree of mechanical violence which reduces to fragments many of the most beautiful and interesting forms. This is particularly the case with some specimens from the "... 