To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as possible ...

Bring the slide back into focus using the fine focus adjustment. If you do not succeed, go back to low power and re-focus and start again. Care must be taken when looking down the microscope that the ...

The Museum has around 2.5 million microscope slides in its collections, which are either vertically or horizontally stored. The Digital Collections Programme has developed a slide digitisation ...