The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopical science / by Jabez Hogg ; with upwards of five hundred engravings, and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West.

Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopical science / by Jabez Hogg ; with upwards of five hundred engravings, and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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