Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — Minute Work. [ARTICLE]

Minute Work.

Some remarkable representations of a bouqufet were made by Henry Dalton, the late English microscopist. Each of them was prepared on glass, from the sca’es and hair of Brazilian butterflies, and to the naked eye looked like small shot, hut nnder a powerful instrument showed eighty-two distinct flowers of Various shades and colors. There are some fifty of these microscope slides in this (Country, it is said, and they are held so valuable that money csn scarcely purchase them.