- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Dixon-Nuttall bequest, September 1929.
- Primary inscriptions
- "J. SWIFT & SON, LONDON." on base.
- Object type
- Microscope
- Dimensions
- Weight: 11.9kg
- Inventory No
- 96358
- Accession Number
- 1970-101/part
Description
Challenge' compound microscope with case, objective in a can, empty objective can, two pairs of eyepieces, substage Nicol prism polarizer, threaded copper alloy collar, bull's eye lens and a lens in a tube.
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