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Compound Binocular Microscope with Case and Accessories, by Nachet, Paris, c. 1860

Inventory Number 37670


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".
Physical material
Brass
glass
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.