M0000240: Compound moncular microscope

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Microscope of Coulier, 1859.

Image of a compound moncular microscope made by Nachet and Son in 1859 in France. It supposedly belonged to Coulier. The microscope was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and is now held by the Science Museum (object number: A62998).

August 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.