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Pictured: The microscope was discovered in this biscuit tin.<br />
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A rare microscope from Captain James Cook's first Voyage of Discovery to Australia which was found in a biscuit tin after 251 years has sold for more than £37,000. <br />
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The then state-of-the-art aquatic microscope was designed to identify marine flora and fauna never before observed by science.<br />
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It was engraved with the name of its owner, Joseph Banks, a scientist who accompanied the legendary explorer on the H.M.B Endeavour to the South Pacific between 1768 and 1771.