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M— Ivory slip called a slider, with four round holes through 

 it, wherein to place objects between two muscovy 

 talcs. 



N — Forceps. 



0— A little brush. 



P — A glass tube to confine living objects. 



Fig- 3- 



Microscope and Case, circa 1780. 



QRST — An arm of which the hole Q screws into G, the 



speculum fitting R. The forceps T fit into a 



hole somewhere between A and F. 



Hearing that we had such an early example, Mr. C. Davies 



Sherborn persuaded his brother, Mr. Sidney Newton Sherborn, 



to present the specimen illustrated in figs. 3 and 4 to our 



museum. It is a fine instrument, with a polished shagreen 



body. In Adams' work this interesting instrument is also 



figured (see fig. 5), and the following description is given to the 



1912 Aug. I. 



