- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Henry Crouch
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society
- Primary inscriptions
- "HENRY CROUCH, LONDON. 3937"on the foot
- Object type
- Microscope
- Inventory No
- 10704
Description
Compound Microscope, manufactured by Henry Crouch. The instrument's The limb is carried on trunnions on a curved tripod base of blackened brass. The body tube slides in a split sleeve for coarse focusing and a micrometre screw on the limb adjusts the fine focus. The eyepiece pushes into a draw tube that extends from the body. The rectangular stage has two spring clips and a rotating disc with four apertures beneath. A concave mirror in a horseshoe mount is set on an arm below the stage.


