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Box of 95 Lantern Slides of Insects, Mostly Butterflies and Moths: Ashmolean Natural History Society Box E 1-100

Inventory Number 11578


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11578

Item type
Object
Provenance
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
Primary inscriptions
Top of box: 'Ashmolean Nat. Hist. Soc. E 1-100'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11578

Description

Wooden fitted box. Contains 95 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides, mostly by R. A. R. Bennett and A. H. Hamm. The final 22 have no ANHS numbers and are more recent in date, and include a sequence of 8 hand-painted.