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Box Containing Glass Strips, c.1884

Inventory Number 14653


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, in 1937. Acquired for Oxford University (by Professor Arthur Thomson) from Francis Galton in 1895. Originally from Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, London.
Dimensions
Height: 182mm Width: 44mm Depth: 52mm
Inventory No
14653
Accession Number
1937-19

Description

Wooden box with a lift off lid containing four large rectangular strips of glass two coloured blue and two coloured red, and a wire mesh with a copper alloy border.