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Lantern Slides

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of loose lantern slide negatives, Undated

 File
Identifier: Coll-1255/8/6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains data from experiments with antigens of Paramecium aurelia, population experiments with Paramecium, supernatants, hybridorms and cloning, mating induction with Euplotes and data relating to work with Sodsri Thaithong et al on pyrimethamine and Plasmodium falciparum, and a collection of lantern slide negatives.

Dates: Undated

Lantern slides, 1920

 Series
Identifier: Coll-705/7
Scope and Contents There are six bundles of lantern slides relating to Marjorie Rackstraw's war relief service in Russia. Photographer is unknown. Some slides include messages to encourage those in London to aid in the efforts, and include images of victims of the war, and places in Russia, as well as slides of text describing how and why it is Great Britain’s duty to assist in this aid. Others are images of children and families who are refugees of the famine. It may be of note that the lists Marjorie...
Dates: 1920

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles S. Plumb, 08 November 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/118
Scope and Contents

Plumb asks Ewart for a copy of a paper which he presented to the Royal Society in 1902 on a new species of horse. He mentions that he has used lantern slides in his own lectures showing some of Ewart's work on telegony and regrets not introducing himself to Ewart at the Royal Agricultural Show at York in 1900. He mentions his own work in the instruction in breeds, breeding, feeding and management of domestic animals at Ohio State University.

Dates: 08 November 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 23 November 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/119
Scope and Contents

Osborn requests some lantern slides to be made up for him from Ewart's negatives. He recommends that Ewart asks Sir William Turner to write to the Secretary of the Carnegie Institution to confirm that Carnegie has approved of their trip to Mexico.

Dates: 23 November 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 30 November 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/120
Scope and Contents

Osborn confirms that he is continuing to gather information regarding his and Ewart's trip to Mexico in February 1905. He also writes that he would like slides made of Ewart's original drawings representing the ontogeny of the horse.

Dates: 30 November 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 12 May 1905

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/8
Scope and Contents

Osborn writes that he is sending Ewart the slides he selected in return for those Ewart sent him. He is writing an article on the peculiarities of the Arab skeleton which he will publish in Science. He is also publishing a brief description of their observations on horses in Mexico.

Dates: 12 May 1905