set of 24 microscope slides with injected specimens
Date: circa 1860
Inventory Number: 1092d
Classification: Microscope Slide
Subject:
Maker: Joseph Hyrtl (1810 - 1894)
Owner: Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873)
User: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Collector: Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes
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Dimensions:
2.6 × 18.7 × 29.8 cm (1 × 7 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Description:
A set of rectangular microscope slides arranged in three (3) rows with eight (8) slides in each row. The slides are housed in a shallow wooden box with a sliding cover. The upper label reads, "Microscopical power between 20-30 diam."
Signedin ink on label: Hyrtl
FunctionTeaching in Harvard Medical School
Historical AttributesSet of microscope slides prepared by Josef Hyrtl, Vienna, c. 1860, as a gift to Louis Agassiz, who lent them to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for teaching.
ProvenanceJoseph Hyrtl, Vienna, c. 1860; gift to Louis Agassiz, Cambridge, MA, c. 1860; on loan to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard Medical School, c. 1861; whereabouts unknown; Dr. Stanley Cobb, before 1920; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes, Harvard Medical School., October 1920.