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Kit with Accessories for Compound Microscope, by Ross, London, 1857

Inventory Number 14190

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.14190

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Mr A. B. Field, formerly the property of James John Field (1828-1886).
Primary inscriptions
"A. Ross London" on lens containers, but also various other inscriptions on accessories, such as "H. Anderson London". .1 - “TURNER & Co”. .2 - “FIELD’S DIFFERENTIAL POLARISCOPE” and “PATENT 1620” .6 - “C”, “D” and “F” .14 - “A. Ross London” .18 - “A. Ross”, “H. ANDERSON”, “LIEBERKEHN”, “ROTATING PRISM”, “SELENITES”. .23 - “Stage Micrometer / Divided / in 100ths and / in 1000ths”
Physical material
copper alloy
Glass
mahogany
Dimensions
Height: 123mm Width: 510mm Depth: 290mm Weight: 4.05kg
Inventory No
14190
Accession Number
1957-60

Description

In copper alloy bound polished mahogany box the accessories belonging to Ross Microscope No. 1779, probably of 1857. Included are a Field's Differential Polariscope, eyepieces, objectives, bull's eye condenser, oblique and dark-ground illuminators, live boxes, compressorium, camera lucida, spot-lenses, micro-spectroscope, injection syringe, Amici prism, analyser, Lieberkühn's, and revolving mounting stage. Some of the small boxes are engraved with the monogram "J.J. Field", to whom the microscope belonged.

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