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Dental key. A steel tool with a bone handle. A crooked rod of steel projects from the handle. Two hinged curved arms with toothed tips and a fastener are on the end.
Dental key, later 19th century, used to extract teeth. Made of iron with an ivory handle. It has four hooks or heads each fitted on to the key by a screwed sleeve, and each is designed to fit around a different size and type of tooth.
Microscope. A brass microscope with additional lenses for magnification and directing light onto a mirror to illuminate the specimen.
David Ferrier's brass microscope, that he used in his research into the brain. It is monocular with a single lens. Light for the stage is provided via a concave mirror below the stage. There are three eyepieces for the microscope. There is a small…
Trepanning kit. A wooden box with tools inside. The tools consist of two circular serrated cutters, a flat axe shaped tool with a serrated edge, a tool with two flat serrated discs at the end, spatulas with toothed surfaces and a brush.
Box containing trepanning instruments: bits and handle, two-sided saws, extenders.
Amputation kit. A wooden box containing various saws and knives.
Professor Dyce DavidsonÔÇÖs amputation kit. Wooden, velvet-lined box contains three types of saw: a tenon saw, a hacksaw and blade, a small (broken) handsaw, also a sawchain, two large knives and a small knife, all in stainless steel with black…
Photograph. A memorial plaque with a three-quarter profile of a short haired, elderly man bordered by laurels. The plaque is inscribed PER ASPERA TENAX, 1768, 1843, To the Memory of the Reverend ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH, M A LL D, Minister of Belhevie, Aberdeenshire, In 1805 he conducted experiments in the Tower under the Master General of Ordinance and in 1807 invented the percussion system which was adopted by the British Army in 1839, This Tablet erected in 1929 by admirers of his Genius.
Photograph, framed and glazed, of the plaque to Rev Alexander John Forsyth. PER ASPERA TENAX 1768 - 1843 Minister of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. In 1805 he conducted experiments in the Tower under the Master General of Ordnance and in 1807 invented…
Photograph. A memorial plaque on a wall at the Tower of London with two guards. The photograph is captioned TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH, Inventor of the Percussion Lock.
Photograph of the plaque to Rev Alexander John Forsyth, at the Tower of London, flanked by 2 Beefeaters. Framed and glazed.
Inscription: TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH. Inventor of the percussion lock.
Inscription: TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH. Inventor of the percussion lock.
Fossil. A round piece of rock with the imprint of a fish, viewed top down, with a wing like fin extending from each side near the head.
Fossil of Pterichthyodes milleri, from Lethen Bar - an armoured bottom-dwelling fish.
Fossil. A long piece of rock with the imprint of a fish on it, viewed from the side, including bones and scales.
Fossil of an Osteolepid fish from Tynet Burn near Fochabers - probably browsed on vegetation and small worms.
Medal. A grey metal medal with a three-quarter profile of a short haired, elderly man and the inscription Alexander John Forsyth LL D 28 Dec 1768 - 11 June 1843.
Silver medallion to Rev. Alexander John Forsyth who invented a percussion lock for fire-arms.
Inscription: Armourers' Company Alexander John Forsyth
Inscription: Armourers' Company Alexander John Forsyth