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An improved polarizing microscope. II. All-purposes model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

A. F. Hallimond
Affiliation:
Museum of Practical Geology, London1
E. Wilfred Taylor
Affiliation:
Messrs. Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd., York

Extract

In the description of an improved polarizing microscope, recently published by the present authors, provision was made for the use of polarizing film in place of calcite prisms, and the consequent changes in the design of the substage and tube were discussed. The model then described was, however, of smaller size than is required for some patterns of Fedorov stage now in use, and a larger stand wan under consideration. For technical reasons this could not be produced at the same time as the smaller instrument, and it was therefore necessary to postpone the description which forms the subject of the present supplementary paper. The changes involved are mainly dimensional, the optical and manipulative arrangements being in principle the same as in the smaller model, but the general standard of equipment in details such as stage racks, ball-bearing stage, and interchangeable bodies is on a scale corresponding with that in the largest existing types of stand.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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References

page 96 note 2 Min. Mag., 1946, vol. 27, pp. 175–185.

page 102 note 1 Emmons, R. C., The universal stage. Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer., 1943, no. 8, pp. 39 and 98. [M.A. 9–18.]Google Scholar