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History of Science Museum

Simple Hand-held Microscope with Box, c. 1875-1900

Inventory Number 70381


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.70381

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Presented to the Society by Peyton Todd Bowman Beale, February 1907.
Inventory No
70381
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

A Coddington-type lens is mounted in blackened copper alloy with a turned wood handle. Opposite the lens, there is a circular slide plate with preparation screws on for focusing.   With the microscope is a pillbox is for the  circular glass preparation.