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Lost Charles Darwin microscope slide set found in cardboard box on sale
A rare microscope slide with scoriaceous lava from Darwin's Beagle voyage is auctioned with a modest £500 start, expected to attract museum and collector interest.
- On Dec. 3, Flints Auction in Newbury, Berks. will offer a microscope slide purportedly containing Scoriaceous Lava from Darwin's Beagle voyage, with a £250 starting price.
- A vendor who bought a job lot found the slide hidden in a cardboard box among 250 insect, petrology and diatom slides at a local auction.
- Scoriaceous lava, a rare volcanic material Darwin encountered, featured in his fieldwork and Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, shaping early volcanic island geology.
- Matt Nunn, specialist at Flints Auctions, said he has never seen research material related to Darwin outside a museum and expects interest from museums and collectors since the slide is believed to be the only one publicly auctioned.
- Long ago material from the Beagle voyage resurfaced when the job lot was inspected, linking the slide to Darwin's geological research and embodying foundations of modern volcanology.
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