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Van Heurck Type Binocular / Monocular microscope in case with accessories. W. Watson & Sons Ltd. London. c.1900

Inventory Number 18593

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18593

Brief Description
Van Heurck type microscope with binocular and monocular fittings and accessories in wooden case
Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased in 1993 by Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (1938-2020) Waynflete Professor of Chemistry and Head of Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford until he retired in 2005. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978 and knighted for his contributions to the field of organic chemistry in 1997.
Primary inscriptions
W. WATSON & SONS LTD / 313 HIGH HOLBORN / LONDON / 17701
Object type
microscope
Inventory No
18593
Accession Number
2022-81

Description

A microscope, known as Van Heurck model, signed Watson circa 1900. Housed in a mahogany case width accessories. It has attachments to for both binocular and monocular use. Accessories associated with this microscope include five objectives, five ocular eyepieces, three camera lucida's attachments, two nical prisms, three rotating nose pieces, one Wenham parabolic illuminator, one mechanical specimen holder. The microscope is inscribed with the manufacturer's name and address: 'W.Watson & Sons Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London' and numbered '17701'

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