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1871 Rep. Geol. Explor. 1870–1 (Geol. Surv. N.Z.) 74 (table) No. on Lab. Book.

1905 Central June 62 A man..finds that the only transmutation has been brought about by his lab.-boy who has mixed his specimens whilst dusting.

1936 Fortune Oct. 176/2 Neither he nor his assistant..wants a flossy laboratory; it is actually cheaper and more effective to set up provisional lab equipment when it is needed.

1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland v. 57 A Prince must be anonymous, observant, A kind of lab-boy, or a civil servant.

1947 Life 17 Nov. 157/2 (caption) Sterilizing vaults are used to decontaminate instruments and containers after they have been used in the lab experiments.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 50 He..lacked the qualifications for lab work.

1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 87 I must also give preliminary seeding out interviews for Beard's four new lab assistants.

1962 ‘E. McBain’ Like Love (1964) xvi. 214 We just got a lab report... I'm talking about your fingerprints on the glass.

1972 Listener 6 Apr. 467/1 An honest lab assistant loses his job for refusing to work on a poison gas project.

1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio vi. 41 Kaye walked between the lab benches, peering through the glass doors of incubators at stacks of petri dishes within.

2010 New Scientist 20 Nov. 20/1 Lab experiments on the bullethead parrotfish suggest the cocoons ward off the bites of bloodsucking parasites called gnathiids that spread diseases.