- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970 Presented by to the Royal Microscopical Society by the executors of Charles Richard Mapp FRMS on the 17th of April 1956
- Object type
- Microscope
- Dimensions
- Height: 362mm Width: 220mm Depth: 160mm Weight: 3750g
- Inventory No
- 77697
- Accession Number
- 1970-101/part
Description
Petrological microscope by J. Swift & Son, London, 1908, with a curved tripod foot and a circular, rotating stage with graduations marked around the rim. The nosepiece has a triple objective changer. The body-tube is mounted on a rack and pinion for coarse focusing and a graduated knob on the limb operates the fine focus.
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