Accession No

L2021.IN049.3

Brief Description

compound microscope, once belonging to zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1885

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1885

Latest Date

1885

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, steel alloy); glass

Dimensions

with substage in place: 105mm (width), 145mm (depth), 310-448mm (height - adjustable)

Special Collection

Provenance

On loan from the Department of Zoology from December 2021. The microscope was made on 4th February 1885. Professor Haddon purchased it directly from Carl Zeiss and received it on 9th March 1885.

Inscription

[On microscope body]
Carl Zeiss
Jena
No. 8295

[On eyepiece lens]
3

Description Notes

Compound microscope, once belonging to zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1885.

Brass and black-painted metal monocular, compound microscope on a Y-shaped stand. The body tube extends and the eyepiece lens can be removed. There is a double nosepiece at the bottom of the tube with two removable objectives. Both stage clips are missing. There is a condenser between the stage and the substage. The substage rotates horizontally. The mirror beneath the substage rotates.

Incomplete (stage clips missing)

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