Reichert stand II compound microscope and accessories
Date: circa 1879
Inventory Number: 1077
Classification: Microscope
Subject:
Maker: Carl Reichert (1851 - 1922)
Maker: Edmund Hartnack (1826 - 1891)
Owner: John Templeton Bowen (1857 - 1940)
Donor: Simeon Burt Wolbach (1880 - 1954)
Collector: Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes
Dimensions:
microscope: 28 × 8.6 × 13.5 cm (11 × 3 3/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
case: 12.5 × 32.3 × 20.5 cm (4 15/16 × 12 11/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
box: 21.3 × 44.1 cm (8 3/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Accessories: 1077a: 5 objectives: Hartnack # 4, 7, 8, No. II Hom. Imm. No. 2 in Hartnack case; Homog. Oil immersion by Reichert in own case. 2 oculars: 2, 3; 2 disc diaphrams, 3 cup diaphrams which fit in sliding plate, sliding plate and holder for diaphrams; condenser; revolving nose piece; extra frame for mirror on slider; fitted case; key to case.
1077b: dark field condenser
1077c: camera lucida
Description:
1077 is a Reichert stand II laboratory compound microscope and its accessories.
Since some principal accessories are stored independently in their own cases, the record has been divided into three parts:
1077a--the microscope and accessories in the primary case
1077b--a dark field condenser
1077c--a camera lucida
Since some principal accessories are stored independently in their own cases, the record has been divided into three parts:
1077a--the microscope and accessories in the primary case
1077b--a dark field condenser
1077c--a camera lucida
Signedon body tube: C. Reichert / VIII. Bennogasse 26 / Wien
on edge of revolving nosepiece: C. Reichert Wien
on canister of "No. II Hom. Imm." objective: Dr. E. Hartnack
on canister of "Homog. Oel immersion" objective: C. Reichert / Wien
on edge of revolving nosepiece: C. Reichert Wien
on canister of "No. II Hom. Imm." objective: Dr. E. Hartnack
on canister of "Homog. Oel immersion" objective: C. Reichert / Wien
Historical AttributesFrom the Ernst-Lewis collection (formerly no. 77).
Note by Dr. Ernst: "Presented by Dr. J. T. Bowen through Dr. S. B. Wolbach, on August 20, 1919. ... First rate example of this maker."
Note by Dr. Lewis: "John Templeton Bowen AB Harvard 1879; MD 1884, instructor in Dermatology 1896-02; asst Prof 1902-1907; Edward Wiggelsworth Prof of Dermatology 1907-11, Emeritus 1911. ...Reichert was a pupil of Hartnack."
Note by Dr. Ernst: "Presented by Dr. J. T. Bowen through Dr. S. B. Wolbach, on August 20, 1919. ... First rate example of this maker."
Note by Dr. Lewis: "John Templeton Bowen AB Harvard 1879; MD 1884, instructor in Dermatology 1896-02; asst Prof 1902-1907; Edward Wiggelsworth Prof of Dermatology 1907-11, Emeritus 1911. ...Reichert was a pupil of Hartnack."
ProvenanceJohn Templeton Bowen, MD, Harvard Medical School; S. B. Wolbach, MD, Harvard Medical School; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes (inv. no. 77), Harvard Medical School, August 20, 1919.