box with 3 microscope slides
Date1872
Inventory Number1990-2-0012c
ClassificationMicroscope Slide
Subject
Maker
William G. Farlow
1844 - 1919
Maker
Heinrich Anton de Bary
1831 - 1888
Maker
Count Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
1842 - 1915
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensionscase: 5 × 10 × 6 cm (1 15/16 × 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
slide: 0.2 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm (1/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
blue board box, with a-b: 31.1 × 22.9 × 30.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 × 12 in.)
slide: 0.2 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm (1/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
blue board box, with a-b: 31.1 × 22.9 × 30.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 × 12 in.)
Material
DescriptionBlue box covered with leatherette and lined with amber velvet. It is fitted to hold microscope slides. Three slides are in the box and are glued to larger modern glass slides as protectors. Cardboard inserts separate the slides.
Small paper manuscripts with brown ink writing identify the slides.
Small paper manuscripts with brown ink writing identify the slides.
InscribedWritten on top of box in ink: MEMENTOES.
ProvenanceWilliam G. Farlow, Assistant Professor of Botany in the Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plains, and then Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard; Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University; transferred to CHSI April 7, 1990.
Historical AttributesThese slides came with microscope belonging to William G. Farlow (inv. 1990-2-12a). The slide of Cucurbita was the first slide made by Farlow at Strasbourg in 1872; that of Peronospora infestans was made by Anton de Bary in 1872; and that of Pilostyles haussknechtii was made by Count Solms.
The slides were kept by Farlow as mementos.
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: circa 1953
Accessories: objectives (4); eyepieces (8); oil bottle; dropper bottle; cover slips; case.
Object number: 2009-1-0011b
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: circa 1953
Accessories: objectives (4); eyepieces (8); oil bottle; dropper bottle; cover slips; case.
Object number: 2009-1-0011a
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: 1862
Accessories: 1 cup diaphragm, 1 diffuser; camera lucida; stage and eyepiece micrometers; liquid trough; 3 dissecting knives; prepared slides in box (1157d); 3 prepared slides loose; plain slides; cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm(1157e); Amici's illuminator prism with stand (1157f); compressorium (1157g); case with parts box (1157c).
Object number: 1157c
Camille Sébastien Nachet
Date: 1856-1862
Accessories: box
Object number: 1029d
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: circa 1862
Accessories: 9 objectives and caps 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, (last 3 marked "Nachet à Paris") in their own box; 3 eyepieces 1, 2, 3; large stage clips; dual nosepiece; camera lucida; side illumination prism ; substage cup diaphragm; substage condensers (3); rotating wheel diaphragm; substage mirror on articulated arm; wrench; convertible objectives (3) for a different microscope; flat case.
Object number: 1068b
Camille Sébastien Nachet
Date: 1856-1862
Accessories: oculars (2): 2 , 3; objectives (6) in fitted box (1029b): 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, along with substage condenser and oblique Nachet prism condenser; cup diaphram; flat case with parts box (1029c) holding diffuser, camera lucida; stage micrometer; ocular micrometer; wet specimen trough, 4 slides in red leather box (1029d); bull's eye condenser.
Object number: 1029a
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: 1862
Accessories: 6 objectives in box (1157b) with 1 substage condenser; oblique prism condenser; 3 oculars; 1 cup diaphragm, 1 diffuser, ; camera lucida; stage and eyepiece micrometers; liquid trough; 3 dissecting knives; prepared slides in box (1157d); plain slides; cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm(1157e); Amici's illuminator prism with stand (1157f); compressorium (1157g); case with parts box (1157c).
Object number: 1157a
Abraham Ypelaar
Date: circa 1795
Object number: 2002-1-0075b1
William Henry Walmsley
Date: 1870-1879
Accessories: One objective: Tolles 1/10 immersion, 180 air angle, dated 8/20/1874, with canister (7 others are now in 1214a); 2 pairs of oculars; magnifier on base marked: J. R. W. /P...?, ME, ; polarizer; drawing prism; diaphragm disc; case.
Object number: 1214h
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