Student Dissecting Kit
Student Dissecting Kit
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- Description
- Beginning biology and botany students have long used simple sets of instruments to dissect plants and animals. The Clay-Adams Company of New York, a maker of teaching apparatus and surgical supplies, sold this example. The set includes a dropping pipette for transferring liquids, a pair of scissors, a teasing needle with wooden handle and straight metal point, a scalpel, dissecting forceps, and a 6-inch (15 cm.) plastic rule. A second needle is missing. The instruments fit in a black leatherette case with a green lining.
- In 1949, Clay-Adams offered such kits for $2.00 each or $20.40 for a dozen. Kits similar to this one, but with slight variations in case and instruments, were sold by Clay-Adams and other companies in the mid-1960s, and could be purchased with funds supplied by the National Defense Education Act.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dissecting kit
- surgical set
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- leatherette (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 2.5 cm x 7.7 cm; x in x 3 1/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0689.12
- accession number
- 1991.0689
- catalog number
- 1991.0689.12
- Credit Line
- June W. Leonard
- subject
- Surgery
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- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Science & Mathematics
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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