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Compound Microscope, Attributed to John Marshall, English, c.1715

Inventory Number 37050

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.37050

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Purchased by the Members of the Microscopical Society of London (later the Royal Microscopical Society) at the sale of Prof. John Quekett's effects, 1861.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned.
Object type
Microscope
Dimensions
Height: 463mm
Inventory No
37050
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Large compound microscope. Microscope contains a large brown wood stand with a single drawer. Drawer contains four wood sliders each with four specimens, and one brass and glass slider with no specimens.

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