Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

  

Antique journals about microscopy, microscopes and other microscopy-related apparatus

Excerpts of antique volumes of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, where microscopes and other microscopy related apparatus were described, can be found in this page. These volumes of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society are ordered by date and were adapted from publicly available sources, including the Internet Archive (https://archive.org).

Please click on the covers to access a PDF file of the respective excerpts (note: these may be big files). To ease the visual search for specific instruments in these antique volumes, most figures of microscopes and other instruments related to microscopy engraved in these sources can be found in a single image database (you can access this resource by clicking the ‘Images database’ link on the lateral menu).

 

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JRMS (1878)

JRMS (1879)

JRMS (1880)

JRMS (1881)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1882)

JRMS (1883)

JRMS (1884)

JRMS (1885)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1886)

JRMS (1887)

JRMS (1888)

JRMS (1889)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1890)

JRMS (1891)

JRMS (1892)

JRMS (1893)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1894)

JRMS (1895)

JRMS (1896)

JRMS (1897)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1898)

JRMS (1899)

JRMS (1900)

JRMS (1901)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1902)

JRMS (1903)

JRMS (1904)

JRMS (1905)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1906)

JRMS (1907)

JRMS (1908)

JRMS (1909)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1910)

JRMS (1911)

JRMS (1912)

JRMS (1913)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1914)

JRMS (1915)

JRMS (1916)

JRMS (1917)

 

 

 

 

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JRMS (1918)