This manual is dedicated to the nameless animals whose tissues were used to make the microscope slides
Some there be which have no memorial, who are perished as though they had never been, and are become as though they had never been born, and their children after them. They too are within the Covenant; their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth forevermore.
Ecclesiasticus XLIV
and to:
Gordo
Penny
Dante
Captain Kidd
Dan
Meg
Tessa
Tycho
Lucy
Tehya
and most especially to:
Toby, without whom I would never have written this at all
and to:
Tucker, who stood by us when we most needed him