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Slide set: Entomological and botanical (lecture: Newton & Co., 29 slides, in/before 1888)

Known references to this set
Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 271

“These are real insects, etc , mounted in balsam on 3?in. square glasses, to show in the ordinary magic lantern. They include ants, centipedes, fern leaves, glow-worms, grasshoppers, lantern flies, locusts, birch tree leaves, sea weeds, skin of snake, etc.”

Lucerna ID  3005298

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