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Eight Simple Microscopes in Cases, Possibly French, c. 1875-1900

Inventory Number 16105


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.16105

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970.
Inventory No
16105
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Eight identical simple microscopes in plain wooden boxes. Each has an ebony handle on which is mounted a lens with a Lieberkühn. All of the microscopes have forceps, at the opposite end two of the microscopes have pins, the others have covered ends.