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Compound Microscope, Case and Accessories, by Adams, London, 1775-1800

Inventory Number 33971


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.33971

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay with his collection.
Primary inscriptions
"ADAMS, LONDON"
Object type
Microscope Case
Inventory No
33971
Accession Number
1944-1/614

Description

This Compound Microscope by Adams, comes in a wooden case, with a set of accessories including Lieberkühn, objectives, bonanni stage, live box, cone, sliders, talc box, a Martin's triple stage, knives, needles and hand forceps; present in the box are also stage forceps, hand magnifier, black-white disc, glass domed discs, fish/frog plates and tubes plus cleaning apparatus, a specimen slide and 2 pieces of paper, one of which lists what is on the sliders. The microscope and its accessories were bought from Dr. Reginald Clay with the rest of his collection.