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Box of 66 Lantern Slides for Lectures on Ants by Sir Julian Huxley

Inventory Number 41504

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.41504

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lady Huxley
Primary inscriptions
Box lid inscribed and labelled: 'Ants' and '27'; end of lid labelled in typescript 'Ants'; box maker's stamp inside lid 'Primus British Made'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
41504

Description

Wooden box, with slight remains of leather strap; hinges of lid detached. Contains 66 glass lantern slides: 13 of them standard 3¼-inch square, 2 approximately 3-&-a-half inch, and 51 3¼ x 4

inch, many of the latter coloured (either hand-coloured or possibly colour printed) They all consist of illustrations (mostly from secondary sources) relating to ants.

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