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Compound Microscope with Accessories and Case, by Watson & Son, London, c. 1885

Inventory Number 48399


Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Presented by Mrs. Edmund Warner, 28 April, 1931
Primary inscriptions
"WATSON & SON 313 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON 1295" on base
Inventory No
48399
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Compound microscope with three eyepieces, three dark wells and a substage carrier, two objectives in a cans, two empty objective cans, a Nicol prism analyser, a compressor, a mounting for a camera lucida, a micrometer, bull's-eye lens, case and case key.