- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by Lewis Evans
- Other inscriptions
- On a white label on the bottom of the box: "3581/A/WS/"
- Object type
- Microscope Case
- Dimensions
- Height: 42mm Width: 165mm Depth: 95mm Weight: 457g
- Inventory No
- 48460
Description
Screwbarrel and compass microscope. The microscope consists of a copper alloy cylinder with a threaded hole at one end to take the eyepiece. A second copper alloy cylinder that has a condensing lens and an external thread screws into the first. Three copper alloy disks make up the stage and are held against the internal cylinder by a Steel spring. Two of the disks are thin and flat, the third has a semi-circular indentation for holding glass phials. There is a boss at the side of the outer cylinder to take an Ivory handle. The Ivory handle is fish-shaped and has a threaded copper alloy tip that attaches to the microscope. The case is softwood covered in black fish skin and lined with green velvet. It has a hinged lid with hook fasteners. The case also contains six objectives of which four have dust caps, a threaded ring on an arm with stage forceps attached on a hinge, tweezers, a talc box, a threaded copper alloy collar and 1 Bone slider.
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