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Two Live Boxes, by Powell and Lealand, London, c. 1898

Inventory Number 80122


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.80122

Item type
Object
Provenance
Deposited by the Royal Microscopical Society with their collection. Presented by E.M. Nelson, 16 February 1898
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Inventory No
80122
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Two copper alloy live boxes of different sizes. Each one is a plate with a raised glass circle, one of which has a glass-topped cap to fit the circle

Both have paper labels that were pasted on by the donor.