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Kirk-McArthur Portable  Microscope Accessories

This instrument came complete with many accessories including:

  1. two stage clips
  2. a dissecting stage
  3. an electric illuminator, with retractable diffuser screeen, powered by two AA batteries
  4. an angled tube fitting allowing comfortable viewing at an angle without tilting the microscope
  5. a standard mirror fitting with stainless steel mirror
  6. a Traversing (glide) Stage
  7. a (added later) lying drop slide signed Burwell Engineering
  8. a water-immersion dark ground condenser signed 'DG'
  9. a phase contrast condenser signed 'PH'
  10. bright field condenser with adjustable iris diaphragm
  11. a objective plate containing a 10X brightfield unsigned but labelled '10X', a 40X phase contrast objective signed 'McArthur 40X/0.70', and a 100X oil-immersion phase contrast objective signed 'McArthur 100 X/1.030 OIL'
  12. a second objective plate containing a 5X labelled '5X' but unsigned, 40X signed '40X/0.70 Prior', and an unsigned and unlabelled 100X brightfield
  13. seven pages of printed notes and instructions, with two figures, housed in a plastic sleave
  14. an integral draw tube about one inch long, with a circumferential scribed line about its middle
  15. a purpose-made blue plastic case with custom foam cutouts to accomodate most of the above