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Oven for Preparing Paraffin Wax with Accessories, c. 1900

Inventory Number 39331


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.39331

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Dept. of Zoology.
Dimensions
Height: 230mm Width: 230mm Weight: 3.85kg
Inventory No
39331
Accession Number
1972-9

Description

Copper Oven for preparing paraffin wax for use in microtome sectioning, with basin, c.1900, used in the old Zoology Department. With white china bowl and a section of glass piping with wooden stopper. [Bracket and gas heater added October 3, 1975.]