UNUSUAL COMPRESSORIUM
MAKER: (?)CORNELIUS VARLEY
c. 1858
COLLECTION OF: Dr Jurriaan de Groot
Cornelius Varley was interested in studying living specimens. To this end, he designed and improved his lever stage controlled microscopes. He also designed an improved live box (his 'Capillary Tablet' or Cage'), for this purpose. Found in the case with a later Varley microscope, circa 1858, was this unusual cased circular compressorium.