Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

 

 

Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society (1878 – 1918)

Most images of antique microscopes and other microscopy related apparatus engraved in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society between 1878 and 1918 can be found below (ordered by maker). The year of publication and page number where the images are found in the journal’s volumes are indicated.

 

 

 

IMAGE

YEAR (PAGE)

INSTRUMENT

MAKER

A picture containing object, indoor, sitting, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1916 (pp. 596)

Microscope, No. 5

Spencer

A picture containing indoor, object, sitting, small

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1916 (pp. 597)

Microscope, No. 10

Spencer

A picture containing sitting, old, table, wooden

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1916 (pp. 597)

Microscope, No. 44

Spencer

JRMS 1880 (pp. 527)

Camera lucida

Spencer and Tolles

A picture containing indoor, sitting, photo, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1888 (pp. 118)

Photomicrographic Camera

Stegemann

JRMS 1885 (pp. 303)

Microscopes for use with the Electric Light

Stein

JRMS 1885 (pp. 523)

Immersion Illuminator

Stephenson

A picture containing table, sitting, pair, laying

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 222)

Herbert Smith Refractometer

Steward

A picture containing indoor, sitting, table, small

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1892 (pp. 416)

Illuminator

Stratton

A picture containing indoor, sitting, table, photo

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1887 (pp. 306)

Hot plate

Stricker

JRMS 1879 (pp. 23)

Camera lucida

Swift

JRMS 1880 (pp. 868)

Microscope and Radial Traversing Substage Illuminator

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 296)

Student Microscope (Wale’s model)

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 656)

Silk-Mercer's Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 698)

Williams's Freezing Microtome

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 810)

"Challenge" Binocular Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 827)

Radial Traversing Substage Illuminator

Swift

JRMS 1881 (pp. 937)

Pocket Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1882 (pp. 549)

Tank Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1882 (pp. 849)

Penological Microscope

Swift

 

JRMS 1883 (pp. 550)

Fase's Portable Dissecting Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1883 (pp. 554)

Nelson's Student's Microscope

Swift

 

JRMS 1883 (pp. 704)

Radial Inclining Microscope

Swift

 

JRMS 1883 (pp. 896)

Pocket Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1884 (pp. 125)

Nelson's Microscope Lamp

Swift

JRMS 1884 (pp. 799)

Oxyhydrogen Microscope

Swift

JRMS 1884 (pp. 960)

Goniometer Stage

Swift

JRMS 1885 (pp. 119)

Swift-Wale microscope

Swift

JRMS 1885 (pp. 307)

Sheep-Scab Microscope

Swift

A picture containing photo, sitting, table, holding

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1886 (pp. 1044)

Paragon microscope

Swift

A picture containing old, clock

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1886 (pp. 1052)

Cam Mechanical Stage

Swift

A picture containing photo, motorcycle, sitting, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1887 (pp. 801)

Crookshank's Bacteriological Microscope

Swift

A picture containing old, sitting, table, small

Description automatically generatedA picture containing table, photo, sitting, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1887 (pp. 802)

Stephenson's Erecting Binocular Microscopes

Swift

A picture containing indoor, table, person, desk

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1889 (pp. 274)

Mineral Microscope

Swift

A picture containing motorcycle, person, parked

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1889 (pp. 432)

Dick and Swift's Patent Petrological Microscope

Swift

A picture containing indoor, photo, sitting, table

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1891 (pp. 87)

Improved Student’s Microscope

Swift

A vintage photo of a machine

Description automatically generatedA vintage photo of a person

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1894 (pp. 250)

New Histological and Physiological Microscope

Swift

A picture containing photo, old, motorcycle, sitting

Description automatically generatedA picture containing indoor, sitting, table, photo

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1894 (pp. 505)

Four-legged Microscope

Swift

A picture containing indoor, table, old, photo

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1894 (pp. 509)

New Mechanical Stage

Swift

A picture containing sitting, old, large, motorcycle

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1895 (pp. 96)

Improved Dick Petrological Microscope

Swift

A picture containing old, sitting, motorcycle, table

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1895 (pp. 98)

“Grand Model” Van Heurck Microscope

Swift

A picture containing sitting, photo, small, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1900 (pp. 380)

New Student's Microscope

Swift

A picture containing object, photo, motorcycle, air

Description automatically generatedA pile of luggage stacked on top of a suitcase

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1900 (pp. 381)

New Portable Microscope

Swift

A picture containing photo, person, old, large

Description automatically generatedA picture containing photo, old, sitting, clock

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1903 (pp. 544)

Portable Microscope

Swift

A picture containing sitting, table, small, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1904 (pp. 101)

Simple Dissecting Microscope

Swift

A picture containing old, photo, sitting, vintage

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1904 (pp. 102)

Microscope for Bacteriological Research

Swift

A picture containing object, photo, old, sitting

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1904 (pp. 103)

Histological and Physiological Microscope

Swift

A close up of a metal pole

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1904 (pp. 104)

Continental Stand

Swift

A picture containing indoor, table, sitting, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1905 (pp. 364)

Engineer's Metallurgical Microscope

Swift

A picture containing object, motorcycle, photo, small

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1905 (pp. 366)

New Compound Metallurgical Microscope

Swift

A picture containing indoor, table, sitting, cup

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 100)

Stereoscopic Photo-micrographic Attachment for Monocular Microscopes

Swift

A picture containing engine

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 218)

Substage with Patent Slow Focusing

Swift

A picture containing old, sitting, motorcycle, person

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 218)

Turrell Mechanical Stage

Swift

A picture containing hydrant, old, standing, blurry

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 220)

Draper’s improved dichroscope

Swift

A close up of a device

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 221)

Simple Hand Polarising Apparatus

Swift

A picture containing object, motorcycle, photo, sitting

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 92)

students' Petrological Microscope

Swift

A picture containing object, photo, motorcycle, mirror

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1907 (pp. 93)

University Binocular Microscope

Swift

A close up of a gun

Description automatically generatedA close up of a weapon

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1912 (pp. 344)

Microscope

Swift

A picture containing motorcycle, sitting, photo, small

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1913 (pp. 524)

New " Premier " Microscope

Swift

A close up of a machine

Description automatically generatedA picture containing object, motorcycle, photo, old

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1913 (pp. 622)

Large Measuring and Screw-testing Microscope

Swift

A close up of a metal object

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1915 (pp. 179)

Dissecting microscope

Swift

A picture containing object, motorcycle, small, photo

Description automatically generated

JRMS 1915 (pp. 299)

“Improved Dick" Petrological Microscope

(Khartum Model).

Swift

JRMS 1882 (pp. 432)

Improved Microtome

Swift and Son