Box of 65 Lantern Slides from the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford

Semi-fitted wooden box, with metal clasps and remains

of leather strap. Contains 65 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides used in

lectures at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford, consisting chiefly of organic

chemistry formulae, many handwritten, but also including a sequence of

portraits of chemists, and a sequence relating to penicillin, including 4

photographs, and a slide of the electron density of potassium benzylpenicillin.

Many of the slides are by Stanley J. Coleman, London.