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Beck’s microscope made to Lister’s pattern

HC.R.1.4

Beck (agent)

Victorian lacquered brass binocular compound microscope, R & J Beck, London, after 1865. The bifurcated tube with rack and pinion coarse and fine screw focus adjustment just above the objective, pivoted plano-concave mirror, the curved limb pivoted via axis support behind the stage onto a column-turned upright and triform foot, with numerous accessories, mahogany case with brass carrying handle. The lenses of this microscope were made according to the formulas of Joseph Jackson Lister. It was presented by the executors of William Beck Junior to Josephine May Peters, student of the Veterinary College, Glasgow in 1932. It was made from the designs of her great-grandfather Richard Beck and his brother Joseph at their factory in 1865. The wooden case, designed to hold the microscope, includes other lenses and various accessories.

Nineteenth century, mid