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Microscope Collection - Cotter Medical History TrustThe Cotter Medical History Trust is bringing a truly remarkable microscope collection for display at the University of Otago, Christchurch. The Trust is currently looking for funding and will appreciate whatever support may be given. From its simple beginnings in the early 17th century the microscope was fundamental to the development of science, in particular life-science, and most of all, medicine. This makes the University of Otago, Christchurch a most appropriate place for display of the collection. It comes from Dr Stephen Clark, a retired pathologist of Nelson. His father was a surgeon in Hawkes Bay. His teenage observations of his father preparing patient tissue sections for microscopy led him toward pathology as a specialty. He caught the collecting bug early in his career and ended up with 150 microscopes, most with original boxes. The next largest collection in Australasia numbers about 40. The earliest is a 1765 compound instrument made by John Cuff, an important early English maker. Later models trace the development of this versatile scientific instrument. He also collected ancillary apparatus - bullseye lenses for focusing light onto the sample stage, specimen preparation microtomes ("bacon slicers" to make see-through tissue sections thin enough to discern single cells), viewing boxes with windows for live insects, laboratory balances, a sunshine meter, and much else. A draft catalogue is attached as a pdf file. The Cotter Medical History Trust was set up by retired surgeon Pat Cotter to collect, preserve and display artefacts of a medical nature, and has New Zealand's most comprehensive collection of medical equipment, instruments, photographs, documents, memorabilia, and biographical notes on 1,000 local doctors. For details contact Pat Cotter -Cotter Collection 03-364-0640 extension
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