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  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students looking through microscopes in a laboratory. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students looking through microscopes in a laboratory. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: a woman inspecting a microscope in a tank. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Left, a woman personifying science instructing her children in how to use a microscope; a woman personifying truth reveals the scene to Father Time. Mezzotint after T.S. Duché, 1787.
  • Quarterly journal of microscopical science.
  • French achromatic microscope, circa 1850, by Nachet.
  • A chest microscope signed 'Dollond, London', circa 1800.
  • The Cuff compound microscope. Signed 'J. Cuff Londini Inv=L=Fecit'.
  • Achromatic microscope by Powell and Lealand, 1849.
  • Baker's Traveller's microscope, circa 1860.
  • A faun surrounded by fairies. Engraving by F. Bacon, 1840, after D. Maclise.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • A horrified old woman observing the monstrous contents of a drop of water through a microscope. Coloured transparency lithograph.
  • Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Exhibition: British medicine and the Continent, 1600-1850
  • A scientist, posed with his microscope, in a drawing room setting. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator machine in use in the Colosseum, London, with many condenser jars and four operators. Wood engraving, 1839.