A cabinet for specimens, materials and apparatus for experiment (15 drawers).

Some of the drawers are labelled, but many of the labels are missing. This cabinet contains photographic equipment (such as exposure meters), glass & prisms, mica, threads & wires, crystals & chemicals, microscope slides. The contents suggests it belonged to John FW Herschel and then later to his three sons, William James, Col John and Alexander Herschel, all keen experimental scientists in the mid to late 19th century. The cabinet though not the contents features in Steavenson's catalogue of all extant 'scientific' material housed at the Herschel family home in Slough (Observatory House) in 1924.