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Microscope Slides in Case, English, c. 1875-1900

Inventory Number 33383


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.33383

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Pres. by Mrs. V. Barber
Primary inscriptions
None
Object type
Box
Inventory No
33383
Accession Number
1973-20/5

Description

Set of 108 glass slides for microscope in twelve trays, containing various human and animal tissue samples. They include lung, liver, kidney, ovary, "acute stage of Catarrhal Pneumonia" and "second stage of Catarrhal Pneumonia". Light brown, hinged, pine wood box case with fold-down face. The case contains twelve trays with places for either twelve regular glass slides, or eight large glass slides.