Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18195

    Boxed microscope slides

    Date
    1920s
    Creator
    Guybon Chesney Castel Damant (1881 - 1963, British) , Naval officer
    Charles Baker (British) , Instrument maker
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    Description
    Two wooden carry boxes containing drawers of microscope slides. Each drawer houses up to six slides. The slides feature a variety of natural history specimens, taken from newts, mice, earthworms and goats, among others.

    The lower lid of each carry box has been stamped, one with: 'High Holborn C. Baker. London', and one with: 'C. Baker Optical & Surgical Instrument Warehouse. 244 High Holborn London'.

    These specimens were used in physiological experiments conducted by J.S. Haldane and Commander G.C.C.Damant to measure decompression in deep sea diving. The results of the experiments were central in Haldane's and Dammant's creation of decompression tables.

    John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) British physiologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1897.

    Commander Guybon Chesney Castell Damant British naval officer was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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