Zeiss student compound microscope
Date: circa 1885
Inventory Number: 1171
Classification: Microscope
Subject:
Maker: Carl Zeiss, Optische Werkstätte, Jena (1846 - 1904)
Maker: Carl Zeiss (company timeline) (founded 1846)
Maker: Ernst Leitz (company) (1849 - 1986)
User: Charles Sedgwick Minot (in class) (1852 - 1914)
Collector: Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
28 cm (11 in.)
Accessories: objectives (3) in Leitz box; ocular
Description:
This is a Zeiss student compound microscope with a stand V design.
The base is horseshoe-shaped and non-inclining. The coarse adjustment is by sliding eyepiece tube; fine adjustment is by a knob on top of post that connects with a micrometer screw. The stage is square. There is a substage mirror located on the swinging arm and a cup diaphram in a sliding plate under the stage.
The base is horseshoe-shaped and non-inclining. The coarse adjustment is by sliding eyepiece tube; fine adjustment is by a knob on top of post that connects with a micrometer screw. The stage is square. There is a substage mirror located on the swinging arm and a cup diaphram in a sliding plate under the stage.
Signedon instrument: C. ZEISS, JENA
Inscribedon instrument: 9727
on base: H 27
on base: H 27
FunctionThis microscope was used to teach histology.
Historical AttributesWith this instrument is a framed 14 x 16 photograph showing medical students using similar microscopes in the Histology Laboratory. The photograph has a typed label reading: "Histological Laboratory in the Old School / -- The Course in 1892 (Class of '96)-- / Professor Minot is at the blackboard. / A class microscope (Zeiss) with Leitz lenses is here preserved. 1171"
Identified in the photograph:
1. C. S. Minot
2. H. P. Quincy
3. F. Dexter
4. J. L. Ames
5. E. M. Greene
6. J. B. Torrey
7. E. A. Andrews
8. J. F. Hawkins
9. J. A. Hickey
10. W. C. Sullivan
11. J. F. Loughran
12. M. J. Hart
13. J. C. McKenna
14. F. S. Newell
15. M. F. Burke
16. R. G. Loring
17. W. Thorndike
18. H. B. Frost
19. D. F. Jones
20, S. Paine
21. J. W. Cummin
22. J. A. McIsaac
Dr. Lewis's wrote a note on another label on the back of picture:
"Harvard medical school class of 1896 taking first year Histology 1892-3 [The first class to enter under the four-year medical course, which however, did not affect histology] Prof. Minot and Dr. Quincy.
Identified in the photograph:
1. C. S. Minot
2. H. P. Quincy
3. F. Dexter
4. J. L. Ames
5. E. M. Greene
6. J. B. Torrey
7. E. A. Andrews
8. J. F. Hawkins
9. J. A. Hickey
10. W. C. Sullivan
11. J. F. Loughran
12. M. J. Hart
13. J. C. McKenna
14. F. S. Newell
15. M. F. Burke
16. R. G. Loring
17. W. Thorndike
18. H. B. Frost
19. D. F. Jones
20, S. Paine
21. J. W. Cummin
22. J. A. McIsaac
Dr. Lewis's wrote a note on another label on the back of picture:
"Harvard medical school class of 1896 taking first year Histology 1892-3 [The first class to enter under the four-year medical course, which however, did not affect histology] Prof. Minot and Dr. Quincy.
Curatorial RemarksMicroscope on loan to the Warren Anatomical Museum, but is missing there.
ProvenanceHistological Laborary, Harvard Medical School, 1892; Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes, Harvard Medical School.