Ophthalmic surgical set used by Nelson Franklin Wetmore (1851-1926), a physician in Wisconsin and father of Alexander Wetmore, the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An inscription in the lid reads “EYE CASE / PAR 914 M.M.D. 1917 / G. P. PILLING & SON CO. / PHILADELPHIA / CONTRACT DATED JUNE 15TH 1917.”
