Shelfmark

tuc.1

Maker

Rev. W. Tuckwell

Subjects

microscope

Title

‘The Microscope - By a Country Doctor’ in ‘Eyes and No Eyes: A Magazine of Local and General Meteorology and Natural History’.

Description

General article about microscopes ‘by a Country Doctor’: personal account of his introduction to the microscope and his pleasure in observing specimens; recommendation of the ‘Society of Arts’ compound microscope made and sold by Mr. R. Field of Birmingham, and of Messrs Smith and Beck’s ‘Universal Microscope’; printed illustration of a microscope (labelled, but no key); instructions on how to use a microscope and what sort of specimens to observe; instructions on viewing living organisms; suggestions for specialist fields of enquiry; instructions on how to mount objects.

Earliest Date

1867

Latest Date

1867

Pages

None

Address

(address of publisher): Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London; Taunton: Barnicott, Fore Street

Other Makers

Published by Longmans Green Reader & Dyer

Cat no

Second edition

Contents List

Hardback

Prices

Index

Illustrations

Yes

General Ref