Accession No

6616.6

Brief Description

‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Fossils, #274), by Science Service and repackaged by Advisory Centre for Education, English, c. 1963

Origin

Cambridge, England

Maker

Advisory Centre for Education

Class

demonstration; games; natural history

Earliest Date

1963

Latest Date

1985

Inscription Date

(c)

Material

Paper (card, tissue, paper); metal; minerals (shell, tooth, other)

Dimensions

140mm (width) x 88mm (depth) x 31mm (height)

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from www.eBay.co.uk on or before 18/12/2015.

Inscription

Description Notes

‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Fossils, #274), by Science Service and repackaged by Advisory Centre for Education, English, c. 1963.

Fossils, unit no. 274, issued August 1963

Box includes Corallite, Crinoid stem, “dinosaur fragment”, shark tooth, Astarte shell, instruction leaflet, brown tissue paper to pad contents and a page from ACE translating American English terms from the booklet. This instruction leaflet educates the owner on different types of fossils and includes a series of 13 experiments to do with the contents of the box.

Box and contents made by Science Service, and box has since had the translation page included and been relabelled by ACE.

References

Events

Description
These c.1960s Things of Science kits were purchased in bulk by the Advisory Centre for Education here in Cambridge from U.S.A. company Science Service, whose science kits aimed to popularise science and spread scientific knowledge. These kits have has new labels applied and include a page that offered translations for American words that British children may have been unfamiliar with. Over time, the Advisory Centre of Education began to completely redesign the American kits, only using the same materials but changing the packaging and instructions.
07/09/2016
Created by: Rosanna Evans on 07/09/2016

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