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"Special" rectilinear lens (patent) No Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
"Special" rectilinear lens (patent) No. 27900 in rigid setting and set of eight brass lens stops with leather case. Bought for use in Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington, where it remained until 1912.