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Description: | MANU Unknown United Kingdom This small scalpel or dissecting knife was used by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in the mid-19th Century. The knife was also used by Kelvin's great grand-niece, Dr. Joan MacKinnon. The item was donated to the Hunterian Museum accompanied by a box once containing the Breadalbane Medal in Mathematics (1841), and a letter written by Lord Kelvin to Dr. John Hall Gladstone (now in Glasgow University Library's Special Collections). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DISSECTION : SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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