Microscope slides

31 Jan 2025

Lizzie Gothorp, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ project placement with the microscope slide containing a microscopic sea creature found during one of history’s most renowned and influential scientific voyages are also among the amazing array of slides. The HMS Challenger left Sheerness on the north Kent coast in 1872, embarking on an unprecedented mission to circumnavigate the globe and comprehensively explore the deep seas for the first time. Examples found in the Leeds collection today include small disc-like fossils called orbitolites which were gathered 18 fathoms down off the coast of Fiji.

Microscope slides: Lizzie Gothorp, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ project placement with the microscope slide containing a microscopic sea creature found during one of history’s most renowned and influential scientific voyages are also among the amazing array of slides.
The HMS Challenger left Sheerness on the north Kent coast in 1872, embarking on an unprecedented mission to circumnavigate the globe and comprehensively explore the deep seas for the first time.
Examples found in the Leeds collection today include small disc-like fossils called orbitolites which were gathered 18 fathoms down off the coast of Fiji.

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