Signedin brown ink on top label: Hyrtl. 1865.
FunctionTeaching in Harvard Medical School
Historical AttributesSet of microscope slides prepared by Josef Hyrtl, Vienna, c. 1860, as a gift to Louis Agassiz, who lent them to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for teaching.
ProvenanceJoseph Hyrtl, Vienna, c. 1860; gift to Louis Agassiz, Cambridge, MA, c. 1860; on loan to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard Medical School, c. 1861; whereabouts unknown; Dr. Stanley Cobb, before 1920; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes, Harvard Medical School., October 1920.