- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Hawksley
- Provenance
- Deposited by the Royal Microscopical Society with their collection. Presented by C H N Bennett, 1967
- Primary inscriptions
- "DEPTH / 2/10MM / LINES / 1/10 x 1/20MM" one side of circle of frosted glass, and "GOWER / HAWKSLEY LONDON" on the other
- Dimensions
- Height: 21mm Width: 85mm Depth: 28mm Weight: 58g
- Inventory No
- 61640
Description
A glass plate mounted on black painted copper alloy with pivoting copper alloy clips to hold down cover slips. The glass plate has a sunken circle of frosted glass and within that is a finely etched grid of channels.
A haemocytometer is used for measuring the number of corpuscles in a quantity of blood. Samples are placed on the glass and examined under the microscope. This design is attributed to the neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915).
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