| Description | Showing a young male technician in profile, with a pencil behind his right ear, looking down a microscope on a laboratory bench, with various items of glassware and equipment visible. Behind, on wall shelves, a selection of labelled chemical jars containing named solutions [hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulphuric acid, etc.]. Taken at the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London.
Not captioned or stamped. This image was used in the article 'The Government Laboratory', by John Mills, The Strand Magazine, vol.21, May 1901, pp.561-571, and captioned: 'Crown contracts laboratory - soldiers' rations under the microscope'. |