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Excerpt from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 4: 1874-1877
The general subject of cutting sections of soft tissues, has been so much before the Club of late, that I fear it may have lost some of the interest properly belonging to so important a branch of practical microscopy. Insect eye-sectioning is, however, a speciality which will I am sure command a special interest; as it is comparatively speaking, a new field of labour for the enthusiastic microscopist, and one in which extraordinary activity has recently been exhibited.
Skilful dissectors have no doubt been able to make out sufficient of the structure of insects' eyes to justify them in' presenting the ideal sections of those wondrous organs of visions, which are to be met with in the various hand-books for the Microscope. Indeed it must be conceded, that the ideal sections are in advance of those that are real, for, are they not the results of the Scientific use Of the imagination? And can we not conceive of things as they ought to be, far more easily than we can execute them? I, therefore, think it unlikely that any one has ever seen, or ever will see, a real section as perfect as the ideal one figured on p. 663 of Carpenter's Hand-book for the Microscope, for the necessities of the case demand that a section to be as perfect must be considerably thinner towards the ganglion, so as to show the filamentous termination of the diaphanous bodies.
Be that as it may, sections of wonderful perfection have been exhibited from time to time in this room; and I, as one of the workers in this field, am encouraged to hope that what little information I have to give, will be regarded in the light of a contribution to our knowledge of a somewhat difficult subject.
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