Compound Microscope in Case, by M. Pillischer, London, c. 1871

The microscope is supported by trunnions on a flat tripod foot. The limb has a rectangular cross section and contains the rack and pinion that raises and lowers the body, for focusing, by extending and retracting the bar to which it is attached. The monocular body tube has an eyepiece with a blackened eyecup and screws into an arm at the top of the supporting arm. The objective screws into the underside of the arm. The stage is a copper alloy rectangle and has a bracket for specimens that moves on two articulated arms held by two pins. At the lower end of the limb is a cylindrical bar that carries the Plano-concave mirror in a horseshoe mount.

The instrument sits on a detachable wooden base which slides into the bottom of a wooden case. Case is fitted for holding accessories. Within case is stored an additional eyepiece with a blackened eyecup, two objectives in cans, and the lid of a further objective can.

A letter held in the instrument's case explains that this microscope was the property of Sir Henry Acland, who as Lee's Reader in Anatomy (1845) was responsible for introducing the study of microscopic anatomy to Oxford.