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Box of 81 Lantern Slides from the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford

Inventory Number 11655


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11655

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11655

Description

Semi-fitted wooden box, with metal clasps and leather strap.

Contains 81 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides used in lectures at the Dyson

Perrins Laboratory, Oxford, consisting of organic chemistry formulae, many

handwritten, together with some portraits of chemists, photographs of

industrial plant, and coloured diagrams of industrial chemistry processes. Some

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