The fact of the matter is that ANY "science" book written that long ago is bound to be full of inaccuracies. Additionally, the more dependent on technology the research is, the more inaccurate the information is likely to be.
I'm not really interested in what someone who lived before microscopes were invented has to say about the structure of a cell because he will be guessing. If I really wanted to know about the structure of a cell, I would look at one through a microscope (as I have done many times).
A publishing date of 1899 automatically nullifies a book as a source of scientific knowledge for any reason other than historical curiosity.
On a side note: If there was a Kickstarter campaign to send Tom Bishop up to the International Space Station, do you think we could get enough funding? Do you think that he would agree to make the trip?