“A Series of Lantern Slides taken from Actual Specimens of Wood, selected and prepared by Mr Harold Busbridge, A.R.I.B.A., A.R.C.S., Chief Lecturer in Building Trade Subjects at the Goldsmiths' Institute, and at the L.C.C. Paddington Technical Institute.
Nos. 25 to 29 are taken from specimens in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, by kind permission of the Curator.
A scale of inches is photographed with eaoh specimen, so that its approximate dimensions can at once be ascertained from the picture on the screen.
In addition to the common name of each specimen, the correct botanical name of the species is placed in the photograph, so as to be easily read when thrown upon the screen.”
“A Series of Lantern Slides taken from Actual Specimens of Wood, selected and prepared by Mr Harold Busbridge, A.R.I.B.A., A.R.C.S., Chief Lecturer in Building Trade Subjects at the Goldsmiths' Institute, and at the L.C.C. Paddington Technical Institute.
Nos. 25 to 29 are taken from specimens in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, by kind permission of the Curator.
A scale of inches is photographed with eaoh specimen, so that its approximate dimensions can at once be ascertained from the picture on the screen.
In addition to the common name of each specimen, the correct botanical name of the species is placed in the photograph, so as to be easily read when thrown upon the screen.”
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