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Portable Compound Microscope, by Swift & Son, London, 1878

Inventory Number 53617


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.53617

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Ernest Keevil, March 1922. Designed by G TBrown (1827-1906), later Sir George, Prof. of Physiology, Royal Veterinary College, London, for Sir Frank Crisp FRMS.
Primary inscriptions
"SWIFT & SON LONDON. W.C." Cans and objectives also signed.
Dimensions
Height: 85mm Width: 103mm Depth: 67mm Weight: 342g
Inventory No
53617
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

This "small pocket microscope" (only 3" in length when closed) was to be carried in the breast pocket, in a mahogany box. Includes Nicol prism, polarizer and analyser; three eyepieces, 4 objectives with caps, a white ivory disc and a mirror in a U-shaped frame.