The Abbe condenser, fitted with an iris diaphragm, is mounted on an eccentric arm, so that it can readily be thrown out of the axis of the microscope when not required, without having to re-arrange the focus when again brought into position. The condenser must be turned aside when plate cultivations and preparations of unstained bacteria are being looked over for selection of colonies for mounting, in which case an arm carrying a quadrant with three apertures is brought into position in place of the condenser, the apertures being severally centred by a spring catch and used with oblique light. This arrangement, shown in Fig. 85, is seen from the under surface of the stage. The stage is sufficiently large, so that when Petrie plates are being examined at the extreme edges there is little fear of their overbalancing. [Illustration: Fig. 86.--Swift’s Histological Students’ Microscope.] The fine adjustment is the Swift’s Patent Campbell Differential Screw, which offers great facilities for delicate focussing with the highest power objectives. The stand is of the most substantial and rigid form, and thus ensures the microscope from vibration. The under-stage of microscope (Fig. 85) is seen to be of the most approved form. [Illustration: Fig. 87.--Swift’s Advanced Students’ Microscope.] _Swift’s Advanced Students’ Microscope._--In this microscope (Fig. 87) we have a superior instrument for the use of the advanced student, which may be described as of high mechanical excellence, well suited for every requirement of work. The stand is the well-known tripod form of their Challenger Microscope, and admits of the instrument being placed at any angle of inclination; the body is short enough to work with objectives of Continental makers, and is provided with a draw-tube, to elongate it to the standard of 10 inches, with a diameter of 1-3/16 inch to take the same eye-pieces as the larger stands. The coarse adjustment is by spiral rack and pinion; the fine, by a carefully made differential screw motion for delicate focussing. The stage is of the horse-shoe pattern, to which a mechanical stage can at any time be adapted, as well as an achromatic condenser to the sub-stage seen beneath. Here the student will find the foundation for a superior instrument. Messrs. Baker’s Microscopes.