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Box of 72 Lantern Slides of Zoological Subjects, Including Birds and Bats

Inventory Number 95251


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.95251

Item type
Object
Provenance
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
Primary inscriptions
Box and lid scratched 'IX'; lid labelled in MS 'Box IX' and (remains of later label) '... Borneo Expedition 19[damaged]'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
95251

Description

Semi-fitted wooden box, with metal clasps and leather strap. Contains 73 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides, in two sequences: 27 collodion photographs of birds and animals, all numbered and labelled in the same hand, and 46 seemingly more modern slides, many labelled 'A.N.H.S.', of various animals with particular emphasis on bats.