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Compound Microscope with Accessories and Case, by Andrew Ross, London, c. 1858

Inventory Number 63925


Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Makers
A Ross
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Eliot Merlin Bequest, 1948
Primary inscriptions
"A.ROSS, LONDON 1775" on the stand
Inventory No
63925
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Compound Microscope with objectives in cans, two eyepieces, substage collar with swing-out filter holder, Abbe condenser, dark-ground condenser, collar with five-aperture disc, box containing a small condenser and a dark-ground condenser with blue glass filter, central stop and oblique stop, two Nicol prism analysers, copper alloy stage plate, glass stage plate, compressor, two micrometers, three copper alloy collars, polariser, can of filters, live box, box of discs, glass plate, adjusting rod, case and case key.