Wallpaper design: Parlour Fancy
Collection: Small Worlds
Sub-collection: Special Exhibition Edition
Microscopic subject: Benzoic acid crystal
Order code: SWSE01PF

Specimen data: 84922_752 Benzoic Acid C7, H6, O2 Polar with Selenite, ‘diffuse small clear crystals’. Wooden box in shape of book, W B Carpenter (1813-1885).

The Small Worlds Collection was produced originally in 2007 for the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, UK, for a specially commissioned exhibition, ‘Small Worlds: the art of the invisible’.

For more information about the exhibition visit the websites of Heather Barnett or MHS. View the full database of micrographic specimens held by the Museum of the History of Science.