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Box of 46 Lantern Slides for Lectures on Radio-Chemistry by Frederick Soddy: Box 2

Inventory Number 63397


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Museum, Oxford, in 1974, per J. M. Edmonds.
Primary inscriptions
MS label on top of box: 'Radioactivity III Special | [Brownian Movement] | LX' [square brackets sic]. Numbered both 2 and 3 on white dot labels [one is probably displaced from another of the wooden boxes].
Object type
Lantern slide
Dimensions
Height: 105mm Width: 368mm Depth: 113mm Weight: 2.65kg
Inventory No
63397
Accession Number
1974-3

Description

Wooden box containing 46 lecture Lantern Slides on ‘Radioactivity III Special [Brownian Movement] L X’. Within the box is a full copy of the ‘Daily Mirror Wed Apr. 27 1955’, this is folded presumably to provide some padding to the slides. The wooden box has a hinged lid and hook fastenings to the front. There is a small handwritten label (MS identifications) adhered to the inside of the lid and a sheet of lined paper with handwritten pencil notes.