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Box 4

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Telescope: 18 3/8" long; engraved on eyepiece "A.S. Mann, Ludgate Street, London, 1749"

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: M015.4
Series Description: From the Series:

Consists of three-dimensional objects from the James Bowdoin III bequest to Bowdoin College, not including the book or art collection. Contains clothing of James Bowdoin III as well as scientific instruments used by James Bowdoin II.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Realia

Telescope: approximately 52" long with wooden body and metal eyepiece [on permanent loan to the President's Office]

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: M015.4
Series Description: From the Series:

Consists of three-dimensional objects from the James Bowdoin III bequest to Bowdoin College, not including the book or art collection. Contains clothing of James Bowdoin III as well as scientific instruments used by James Bowdoin II.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Realia

Celestial Globe: "Smith's Celestial Globe containing all the known stars, nebulae, &c. Compiled from the works of Wollaston, Flamsted, Dela Caille, Havelius, Mayer, Bradley, Herschel, Maskelyne, the Transactions of the Astronomical Society of London, &c. &c. London: Sold by C. Smith & Son, 172, Strand." [on permanent loan to the President's Office]

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: M015.4
Series Description: From the Series:

Consists of three-dimensional objects from the James Bowdoin III bequest to Bowdoin College, not including the book or art collection. Contains clothing of James Bowdoin III as well as scientific instruments used by James Bowdoin II.

Dates: 1687 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1687 - 1848
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Bowdoin family collection / Realia

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