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Black plate, white ink ' No. 560903 / MADE IN ENGLAND '. On 3 adjustable feet. Circular brass rim with scale from 0 - 360. Two tubes, one with eyepiece, the other with a scale from 0 - 50 in divisions of 2.

Hand-written label for stone specimen but stone missing. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Stone from the temple of the ....

Stone from the tomb of Archimedes, wrapped in paper label. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: From the tomb of Archimedes.

Stone wrapped in label, collected from Duaga. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Specimen of the stone from Duaga

Fragment of stone 'from the fortress at Mooltan', wrapped in old envelope, with hand-written label. Inscription: From the fortress at Mooltan 1849

Stone fragment wrapped in label, from Alexandria. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: A specimen of the Diocletion pillar at Alexandria (Pompey's Pillar)

Plant specimen wrapped in paper label, taken from Gozo. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: A peculiar shrub grown in the rock at Gozo where you are spun across in a box.

Two shells collected from a cataract, wrapped in a paper label. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Shells from the great cauldron formed by the largest of the Rewah cataracts.

Test tube with cork lid, wrapped in a paper label. Originally contained a specimen of water from the River Jordan. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: Water from the Jordan above Tiberius

18 small glass beads, all but one numbered. In circular wooden box. Instructions for use on paper stuck inside lid. Likley to be the box of spirit bubbles' purhcased in 1833 by Prof William Knight.