Victorians peered at strange and beautiful things under their microscopes — butterfly scales, insect shells and centuries-old beard hair, for example. Take a peek at some of these antique slides.

Q: This set of almost 70 microscope slides from the 1800s includes 12 novelty slides, “microdot” efforts showing the Royal Family, Niagara Falls, etc. Many are labelled with specimen name ...

“ Coe’s slides are stunning,” said Daniel Drew, museum assistant II in the Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, where the late zoologist’s handiwork is among about ...

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

Antique microscope slides reveal obsession with science. A miniature photograph of the moon, beard hairs whose owner has been dead for centuries, a shaving of Egyptian mummy bone, ...

Place the slide. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, or a permanent slide – on the stage. Line it up so that the specimen – if you can see it – is in the centre of ...

It took the Covid-19 pandemic and a class held on Zoom for the entomologist to give a long-forgotten insect specimen another look. With the world in lockdown in the fall of 2020, Michael Skvarla ...

Place the slide. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, or a permanent slide – on the stage. Line it up so that the specimen – if you can see it – is in the centre of ...