Microscope Slide Collection

This collections contains over 15,000 microscope slides, dating from the 1700s. 

Objects in this collection have museum identification numbers with the prefix RCSMS.

Includes slides prepared by:

• Microscopist John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861)
• Pioneering dentists Sir John Tomes (1815- 1895) and his son Sir Charles Tomes (1846- 1928)
• Primatologist William Osman Hill (1901-1975)

The Hunterian Collection also includes slides made by anatomist William Hewson (1739-1774)