A Victorian mahogany microscope slide cabinet containing a collection of specimens The cabinet unsigned, late 19th century With moulded top over rectangular glazed front door enclosing thirty-six drawers each containing approximately twenty-five to thirty microscope slides mostly professionally prepared including geological and mineral samples alongside chemical, botanical, entomological, zoological and some pathological including examples labelled W. WATSON & SONS, 313 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON; W. A. FIRTH; H. W. H. DARLASTON, BIRCHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM; NEWTON & Co., 3 Fleet St., Temple Bar, LONDON; T. HENDERSON (wooden slides); FLATTERS & GARNETT L.T.D., 309 OXFORD RD., MANCHESTER and SMITH BECK & BECK, 31 Cornhill E.C., the cabinet 25.5cm (10ins) wide. Provenance: The Maurice Gillet collection of microscopy including inventory ref. G3114.