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Description:

V-shaped glass with pouring lip and foot. The form, sometimes termed a graduated measure glass, is associated with Thomas Clark (1801-1867), a Scotsman who, in 1833, became professor of chemistry at Marischal College in Aberdeen. The sides of this example are graduated to 3 scruples and 1 dram..

Ref: Richard Griffin & Co., Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus (Glasgow, 1841), pp. 55 and 82-83.

Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Apparatus (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 65.

Location: Currently not on view

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Credit Line: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: CH.333998.019Catalog Number: 333997.019Accession Number: 304826

Object Name: Graduate, Apothecary

Measurements: overall: 6.7 cm x 5.1 cm; 2 5/8 in x 2 inoverall: 2 3/4 in x 1 15/16 in; 6.985 cm x 4.92125 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e5c2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_2650

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