Microscope slide

Mounted microscopial specimen formerly in a box marked AST1029.25.

Microscope slide from a fifteen drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s. Collectively the contents of this and a similar cabinet seems to suggest that they were used by successive generations of the family to store specimens, material and apparatus for carrying out experiments.

Labelled 'Agnthidia...in Flint'.

Object Details

ID: AST1029.61
Type: Cabinet contents
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Overall: 2 mm x 25 mm x 76 mm
Parts: Cabinet
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