Accession No

3208

Brief Description

microscope slides, including microphotograph by Dancer and preparations by John Thomas Quekett, [English], 19th century

Origin

[England]

Maker

Dancer, John Benjamin Quekett, John Thomas Fox, Dr Eilleth JNS

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

glass; paper

Dimensions

length 77mm; slides length 76mm; breadth 75mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

Description Notes

Microscope slides, including microphotograph by Dancer and preparations by John Thomas Quekett, [English], 19th century.

An assortment of 24 glass slides; 4 micrograph slides of St. Paul’s Cathedral, The Crucifixion, photograph and York minster [TG], 3 signed Dr. Fox; St. Paul’s Cathedral by J.B.D. (Dancer)

4 organic specimens in green paper mounts signed in longhand on the back Eilleth (?) including a flea [TG], cabbage moth, dragonfly [one other in TG]

6 organic specimens on assorted paper faced slides - including sections of elm and oak [two in TG]

3 slides with scratched engraving by John Thomas Quekett (two signed with his monogram, "JQ"): ‘JQ Section of a young Cats lip shewing the rudimentary black whiskers in follicle’ [TG], ‘Skin of the Frog JQ’ [TG], ‘Jos Sidbotham Jan 1862 for W. Crookes B No 5’ a micrometer slide 1 - 50 in every direction.

3 inorganic slides of granite [TG], phosphate, sulphuric acid the latter signed ‘JNS 1872’

4 polarising slides with specimens of Calc. Spar (on one the specimen has been lost)

Condition good;

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