Unspecified / mid 19th century
Microscope
The Smithsonian catalogs Microscope as microscope in its Science & Scientific Instruments records.
This seems to be a simple “flower and insect” microscope with a turned ivory handle. It was owned by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist.
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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it mid 19th century.
This seems to be a simple “flower and insect” microscope with a turned ivory handle. It was owned by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist.
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