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John Dalton's Eyes
Participants at the John Dalton Conference in Manchester in 1994 will
remember that the Manchester Museum of Science And Industry holds a
number of items relating to Dalton in the private archive - including
his eyes. The Museum's reason for keeping the eyes is to enable
research into colour vision and, at the time of the Conference,
permission was granted for a sample to be taken from the eyes for
DNA analysis. The Museum would like to publicise the existence and
availability of the eyes as widely as possible within the research
community, and encourage their use for suitable research purposes.
Access to the eyes would not be permitted on any other grounds.
If you would be interested in using Dalton's eyes for research
purposes, please contact
The Curator of Science
Museum of Science and Industry
Liverpool Road
Manchester
M3 4FP
Tel: +44 (0)161 832 2244
Fax: +44 (0)161 834 5135
website: www.msim.org.uk
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Dr Christine M Dickinson
Senior Lecturer, Editor-in-Chief Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
Department of Optometry and Neuroscience
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester
M60 1QD
UK
TEL: +44 (0)161 200 3874
FAX: +44 (0)161 200 3887/4433
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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