Signedon instrument: E. Hartnack et Cie. / Place Dauphine, 21 / Paris
Historical AttributesDr. William Sturgis Bigelow (MD 1874, Harvard Medical School) was continuing his medical trainng in Paris under Louis Pasteur in 1875, when he bought this binocular head. He might have taken it with him to Japan in 1881.
ProvenanceDr. William Sturgis Bigelow, purchased in Paris, 1875; Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes (inv. no. 145), Harvard Medical School, 1921.