New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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A Simple, Inexpensive and Efficient Microscope Lamp

L. H. MILENER

Botany Department, University of Auckland

Abstract Some 30 years ago, when 1 began teaching in this department, the only microscope lamps in the laboratories were naked bulbs set along the backs of the benches in glaring rows. Lamphouses, essentially like that shown in Fig. 1 A were invented of necessity: and they were put together by hand for a few shillings each. Designed at the time as makeshifts, lamps of this kind today provide the light source for almost all of our several scores of microscopes that do not have built-in illumination. Students generally choose to use them in preference to our newly-acquired, highly sophisticated, and expensive microscope lamps. The lamphouses have been copied by a number of schools and other institutions, and inquired about by many visitors.

(Received 5 October 1970) New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 545-8

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