| Description | Showing a male technician raising a glass retort up the the light, and holding a second piece of glassware in his right hand. There is a laboratory bench in front, with a microscope and various glass containers. Behind, more glassware containing liquids, and with inserted filter papers. The main image is slightly out of focus, perhaps due to motion. Taken at the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London.
Captioned in pencil verso: 'Butter analysis'. 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: 'Testing butter and cheese'. |