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Description: | none MANU Unsigned circa 1840 DES after MARTIN,Benjamin. 1738 Chichester, England. This is a boxed Martin pocket microscope more commonly known a a drum microscope. So called because the body tube is inside the pillar, which is shaped like a drum with sections cut away. It has rack and pinion adjustment and a single substage mirror. There are three foreign objects in the box one is a slit from a specrograph anther is a substage condensin lens for focussing the incident light and a simple microscope in the form of a Hugens doublet. The accesories include a simple microscope in the form of a Huygen doublet with a cracked lens, two green filters that fit the substage mirror, six non achromatic objrctive lenses, one attached to the microscope, a box of mica coverslips a glass stage a black and white stage for contrast, A glass bottomed specimen dish. A glass microscope slide, atest tube with needle point and brush for handling specimens. Plus four bone specimen slides, with specimens that do not appear to match the attached list, four retaining clips for the specimen slides, a supra stage specimen holder with poit and forceps. A piece of dried bryozoan, a beetle wing case and a dried starfish. There are also three watch glasse and a very small dishes bone stage one side painted black the other white for contrast. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HISTORICAL COLLECTION : SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT : HISTSCI : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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