- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Andrew Ross
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society.
- Primary inscriptions
- "Andrew Ross, Optician 33 Regent St Piccadilly. No 33"
- Physical material
- Brass
- Dimensions
- Height: 460mm
- Inventory No
- 85741
Description
The circular base supports lead weighted for stability and supports a pillar with a compass mount for the limb with the plano-concave mirror, mechanical stage and the microscope body. Rackwork moves a dovetailed slide to which the body-tube is fixed. Fine focusing is by a short lever on the nosepiece. There is one objective in a can.
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