Accession No

3236

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1900 (c)

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

1903

Material

glass; metal (brass); wood

Dimensions

box height 385mm; depth 212mm; breadth 184mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated, 1985. The microscope belonged to Tansley.AG and his wife Edith. Tansley.AG (1871-1955) Plant Ecologist. University College London. Cambridge, Trinity College 1890-93, then returned to University College. 1904 ‘British Vegetation Committee’; 1913 President of the British Ecological Society; 1907 Lecturer in Botany in Cambridge; 1927 Oxford, 1st President Nature Conservancy Council (DN.B).

Inscription

‘Carl Zeiss
Jena
No. 19231’ (on body tube)
‘The lenses and accessories of this Microscope were presented to A.G. Tansley and Edith Chick on the occasion of their marriage
July 1903
by past and present members of the Botanical Department
University College’. (plaque inside box)

Description Notes

Black painted horseshoe base; double square cross-section. pillars support pivoting limb; square stage constructed of two plates; racked substage with condenser and swinging plano concave mirror; double pinion coarse focus; conical fine focus divided 0-(25) by 5 to 5 draw-tube graduated 14-20 cm by 1 to .01; 2 eye pieces; erecting eyepiece; triple nose piece; three objectives 16mm Apochromat and 4mm Apochromat both signed ‘C. ZEISS’; 16mm also signed ‘Tansley’; brass cases signed ‘Carl Zeiss’ and ‘Agent C.BAKER...’. Also 4mm Apochromat in case signed ‘C ZEISS / JENA’; fitted wooden box.

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