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History of Science Museum

Granite Dust in Envelope (Haldane Apparatus)

Inventory Number 71522


Item type
Object
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).
Physical material
Paper
Granite Dust
Inventory No
71522
Accession Number
1967-66A

Description

Large brown paper envelope containing:

1 smaller envelope holding another smaller envelope that contains granite dust

1 sheet of specialised stationary paper with an impressed seal, black line around the perimeter and typed note

1 matching folded envelope with a black line around the perimeter of one side.