- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Sanderson
- Provenance
- Presented by Mrs Lois Godfrey in 1967. Among items taken by the Museum from the private laboratory of her grandfather J. S. Haldane, prior to the demolition of his house (the site of Wolfson College, Oxford).
- Primary inscriptions
- Gold stamped: 'J. B. S.'
- Dimensions
- Height: 100mm Width: 165mm Depth: 25mm Weight: 77g
- Inventory No
- 11880
- Accession Number
- 1967-66A
Description
Brown patterned leather outside, green leather inside, with textile band attached to back. Empty. The initials J.B.S. on an item derived from the laboratory of J. S. Haldane (Sanderson's nephew) indicate that it belonged to Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson (1828-1905), professor of physiology and then of medicine at Oxford.
Among items found in the private laboratory of J. S. Haldane at his house, Cherwell Edge, Oxford, before it was demolished.
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