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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 3270/8/7/10
Alt Ref No31/5
TitleSet of slides on anatomical, anthropological and horticultural themes
Date? 1940s - ?1970s
Extent111 slides
DescriptionCollection of slides on anatomical, anthropological and horticultural themes, stored in single slide box, apparently compiled as a teaching set, but whose original order is now uncertain.

Slides 1 - 2: gravestones, Dumfriesshire
Slide 3: gravestone marking 'Pinder', a horse
Slide 4: map centred on the Aegean Sea
Slide 5: circus
Slides 6 - 12: anatomy of the mouth
Slides 13 - 15: 'Downie twins, Rosehearty'
Slides 16 - 20: female facial hair growth
Slide 21: contortionist
Slides 22 - 27: Cancerous and non-malignant growths in humans
Slides 28 - 30: development of babies' genitalia
Slide 31 human tissue/ skin
Slides 32 - 36: human anatomy model showing distribution of muscles, nerves, etc
Slides 37 - 39: Thomas Carlisle
Slide 40: Illustration advertising Sir Gordon Taylor's talk 'On Anatomical Eponyms' to the Anatomical and Anthropological Society
Slides 41 - 42: cover page from 'Woman's Own' magazine
Slides 43 - 44: Modernist/ abstract paintings depicting women
Slide 45: ship's figure-head
Slide 46: human tissue/ skin
Slide 47: Robert Lockhart's 'Dissection of the Head and Neck'
Slide 48: baby with 'muscular tail'
Slide 49: human tissue/ skin
Slides 50 - 110: anthropological objects
Slide 111: sea-horses
AppraisalPersonal slides of Lockhart, friends and colleagues, which appeared unrelated to the teaching slides, were extracted from the set during cataloguing and listed in sub-series MS 3270/8/1 and MS 3270/8/5.
Access StatusOpen
Access ConditionsOpen, subject to signature accepting conditions of use at reader registration sheet
Physical DescriptionBlack and white, and colour slides.
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