Accession No

5246

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope; [French]; 2/2 19th century

Origin

[France]

Maker

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, iron, steel); wood; glass; organic (animal tissue; plant tissue); paper (card and one other); cloth (felt)

Dimensions

microscope height 235mm; breadth 71mm; depth 94mm box height 88mm; breadth 240mm; depth 120mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated in 20/04/1998. Given to the donor by his godfather, who received it himself as a child.

Inscription

‘GROSSISSEMENT
3 lentilles achromatiques’
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180 fois (paper label in box lid)

Description Notes

Compound microscope with black-painted iron base, limb and stage. Tilting substage mirror with plane face only. Rectangular stage with steel clips. Brass body with rack and pinion focusing. Push-fit eye-end with screw-fit eyepiece. Screw-fit triple objective.
Fitted wooden box with brass hinges and hook fasteners. Partially lined with green felt. Contains two card boxes with 23 prepared slides, one of which is broken. Each slide is labelled:
1. Scales of Butterfly
2. Scales of Butterfly
3. Skin of Snake
4. Tongue of Bee
5. Leg of Bee
6. Jaw of Bee
7. Antenna of Bee
8. Head of BlowFly
9.Spiracles of BlowFly Larva
10. Potato Starch
11. Pendate of Whelk
12. Foot of Blowfly
13. Wing of Bee
14. Scales of Moth (broken)
15. Head of Blow Fly Larva
16. Fern sparules
17. Sting of Bee
18. Yellow Gorgonia Spicules
19. Red Gorgonia Spicules
20. Wing of Butterfly
21. Pollen of Lily
22. Foot of Spider
23. (illegible)

Condition good (box struts have broken away from box); complete.

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