A late Victorian mahogany specimen cabinet, containing an exceptional collection of biological microscope slides, the moulded pediment surmounted with a brass carry handle, above a glazed door revealing twenty nine drawers, on a plinth base detailed 'R&J Beck, 31 Cornhill London', height approx 50cm, each drawer containing at least 36 microscope specimen slides, including human and animal embryo samples, insects and spiders, the majority applied with inscribed paper labels including 'W. Watson & Sons', 'Thomas Groves', 'E. Wheeler' and 'Smith Beck & Beck', together with a collection of approximately 280 other similar biological and botanical slides, a purchaser invoice from W. Watson & Sons and a memorandum from Ernest Hinton, both dated 1890, and a later specimen cabinet.