Microscope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Small glass cylinder with brass fittings, enclosed in a cardboard case. Inside the cylinder is a Diamond Beetle from Brazil, said to be “one of the most magnificent of microscopic objects.” The first head keeper at the National Zoo gave this item to the Smithsonian in 1943, stating that it had been in his family for over 90 years.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. L. Notcutt, A Handbook of the Microscope and Microscopic Objects (London, 1859), p. 92.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William Blackburne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.164882.01
label: catalog number
content: 164882.01
label: catalog number
content: M-09787
label: accession number
content: 164882
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2.25 cm; 8.255 cm x 7/8 in