Student Dissecting Kit
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Sputnik
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.12
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dissecting kit
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2.5 cm x 7.7 cm; x in x 3 1/16 in