Unknown glass slide

One double square piece of glass. The contents of this slide is difficult to determine; suggestions have included emulsion experiments and unidentified vegetable matter.

This glass slide comes from a 14-drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s. The contents of this and a similar cabinet seem to suggest that they were used by successive generations of the family to store specimens, material and apparatus for carrying out experiments.

Object Details

ID: AST1030.73
Type: Cabinet contents
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Overall: 2 x 76 x 76 mm
Parts: Cabinet