Abstract: A dissecting board having a glass base and a plastic cutting pad on top of the glass base, the pad being of a thickness and hardness to permit pinning a specimen on the pad and to permit some penetration of the dissecting knife but to prevent contact of the knife with the glass base and consequent dulling of the knife during normal practice of dissection; and a pan in which such board and dissected specimen may be contained when being moved and whereby spillage of liquids is avoided. Also processes in which a specimen to be dissected is pinned to the pad, dissected, removed and the board cleaned for reuse, and processes in which the board is placed in a container and moved to another position, more particularly where the glass base is tinted and the specimen photographed against the tinted glass base. A further feature is the provision of a permanent printed scale in an edge portion of the glass base.