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Box of 96 Lantern Slides of Zoological Subjects: Ashmolean Natural History Society Box Z 1-100

Inventory Number 11584


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11584

Item type
Object
Provenance
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
Primary inscriptions
Top of box: 'Ashmolean Nat. Hist. Soc. Z 1-100'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11584

Description

Wooden fitted box. Contains 96 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides, including a sequence of hand-painted studies of snakes by L. J. Veley, and photographs by Newton & Co., Douglas English, W. Saville Kent, W. M. Martin, F. A. Bellamy, and D. Gould. The images include Jaws of a Rattlesnake, Australian Spinous Lizard on a Straw-hat, and a Gigantic Armoured Dinosaur (Stegosaurus Ungulatus).