Accession No

4576

Brief Description

one set of glass crystal models, 23 of 25 in number, in a fitted box of which the base remains, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

3209

Brief Description

3 live microscope slides; 18th century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

5244.196

Brief Description

Pyrex boiling flask, by James A. Jobling and Company, English, from the Howard Glassware Collection, believed to have been used to distill perfume oil, 1950s

Origin

England

Maker

James A. Jobling and Company

Accession No

0426

Brief Description

sextant-type navigational instrument, invented by A. Thompson, 1800 (c)

Origin

Maker

Thompson, A. [inventor]

Accession No

6487

Brief Description

circular slide rule, ‘Lord’s calculator’, by Elliott Brothers, English, c. 1880

Origin

London; England

Maker

Elliott Brothers

Accession No

5364

Brief Description

botanical teaching model of a palm tree (type) trunk section with branch made of papier mâche, attributed to Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux, French, circa 1880

Origin

France [based on attributed maker]

Maker

Auzoux, Louis Thomas Jérôme [attributed]

Accession No

0865

Brief Description

gun clinometer, attributed to Giacomo (Iacobas) Lusuerg, Italian, c. 1686

Origin

Italy; Rome [based on attributed maker]

Maker

Lusuerg, Giacomo [Iacobas] [attributed]

Accession No

3509

Brief Description

print, portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician and cosmologist, by J. Chapman, English, 1801

Origin

England; London

Maker

Chapman, J. [artist] Wilkes, J. [publisher]

Accession No

3275

Brief Description

mercury-in-glass thermometer, by Matthew Berge, English, early 19th century

Origin

England; London

Maker

Berge, Matthew

Accession No

4686

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting ovule and embryo-sac of Narcissus poeticus L, by J. F. Schreiber and Arnold Dodel-Port, German, late 19th century

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist]