Accession No

1843

Brief Description

microscope slides, by Andrew Pritchard, English, 1835

Origin

England; London; 263 Strand; and 162 Fleet Street

Maker

Pritchard, Andrew

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1835

Latest Date

1835

Inscription Date

1835

Material

metal (brass); hide (leather); cloth (velvet, satin, silk); paper (card); glass; ivory; wood

Dimensions

box length 112mm; breadth 34mm; height 23mm; slides various second box length 113mm; breadth 68mm; height 29mm

Special Collection

Heywood collection

Provenance

Purchased from the Professor Harold Heywood collection under estate duty exemption benefit with the assistance of a Science Museum grant-in-aid.

Inscription

‘A. Pritchard, 263 Strand. 1835’
‘A. PRITCHARD, 162, Fleet St. LONDON’ (on 1843.2)
‘J. Hollersid (?) July 1860’ (on 1843.3)

Description Notes

14 glass slides, of very various dimensions and each inscribed with details of the specimen, and a signature - ‘Antiqua’, ‘Fossil palm from Antiqua’, ‘Flint from Chalk formation’, ‘Larva Dyticus marginalis or water lion’, ‘Skin Larva Lacquer-moth with the breathing orifices’, ‘River Hunter N.S. Wales Very Pretty’, ‘Autur, France, Pretty’, ‘Respiratory system of caterpillar...’, ‘Respiratory system Larva Dyticus’, ‘Alimentary system Caterpillar’, ‘Fossil infusion ... Bohemia’, ‘Kovinia, Yellow Sea’, ‘Fossil infusion Pervia, Italy’, one other. Eight are enclosed in a perspex mount together, the others are loose.

Rectangular card box covered with maroon leather and lined with blue velvet and blue satin. Brass hinges and push-button fastener.

1843.2: Ivory slide with 3 objects marked ‘Nitre’, ‘Quartz’, ‘Topaz’ in maroon case lined with blue velvet and satin.

1843.3: 3 x 1” slide marked ‘Polariscope/Blue Selenite’. Cover glass cemented over it and covering some scratched inscription giving objective and eyepiece details and also a description (illegible) of the botanical specimen. Wooden case lined with velvet and silk and covered in brown leather (originally more slides in this group, now disassociated).

Counting the enclosed slides as separate parts, and not including the perspex enclosure, 19 parts were counted in total on 24/03/2022.

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