- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970 Purchased through Dr H. Jackson by members of Council and presented 18 October 1933. Once belonged to Prof. Alan Thompson and J Miller Thompson.
- Primary inscriptions
- "NACHET ET FILS a Paris. 16, rue Serpente".
- Inventory No
- 37670
- Accession Number
- 1970-101/part
Description
Binocular compound microscope. Heavy, lead-filled brass foot, limb on trunnions, fine focus cylinder and plate to which prisms are attached. Microscope gives a true stereoscopic image. Huygenian eyepiece. Also pair of shorter body -tubes with associated prisms to allow viewer to be in a sitting position. Instrument packs into a mahogany box with a key (replacement). Separate card box holding 12 lenses in mounts. Several are objectives.
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