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Specimen tube
Specimen tube with remains of an insect in it with the top corked.
Thisspecimen tubecomes from a 15-drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s. 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.
This is quite likely to have belonged to Constance Lubbock (nee Herschel), the youngest of John FW Herschel's children who took her examinations for the Natural History Tripos in 1878 having gone up to Girton College, Cambridge in 1878. Certainly there are letters between her and her most scientific brother, Alexander, about her taking over the family laboratory in September/ October 1878.
Thisspecimen tubecomes from a 15-drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s. 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.
This is quite likely to have belonged to Constance Lubbock (nee Herschel), the youngest of John FW Herschel's children who took her examinations for the Natural History Tripos in 1878 having gone up to Girton College, Cambridge in 1878. Certainly there are letters between her and her most scientific brother, Alexander, about her taking over the family laboratory in September/ October 1878.
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