Signedon shade: THE ACME LAMP / JAS. W. QUEEN & CO. / PHILA.
painted on stand: QUEEN & CO. / PHILA.
embossed on brass wick adjustment screw: PAT. FEB'Y. 27. 1877.
Historical AttributesThis microscope lamp was owned and used by Clarence Alonzo Cheever (1858-1946), Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1881 from Harvard's Bussey Institution and Harvard Medical School MD in 1883.
Cheever first became interested in diatoms as an undergraduate student of William Gilson Farlow at Harvard's Bussey Institute. He was a demonstrator of anatomy at the Bussey Institution between 1883 and 1884.
Primary SourcesJames W. Queen & Co., Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessories, Magnifying Glasses, Stereoscopes, Graphoscopes, etc. (Philadelphia: James W. Queen & Co., 1890), 61.
Queen & Co., Abridged Catalogue of Microscopes (Philadelphia: Queen & Co., Inc., 1893), 56-59.
ProvenanceDr. Clarence Alonzo Cheever, Bussey Institution, Harvard University, 1883-1884; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes, Harvard Medical School, 1929.