Heliotrope from the Leiden Observatory for the 1874 Dutch expedition to Reunion

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Object notes Associations
This is one of the three heliotropes made by the instrumentmakers of the Leiden Observatory.
Leiden Observatory instrumentmakers, Leiden, 1873
Museum Boerhaave V13161
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