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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001209191-15-060811
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20150710
FILED AS OF DATE:		20150714
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20150714

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001123494
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	LABORATORY ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS [3826]
		IRS NUMBER:				043306140
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		84 OCTOBER HILL RD
		CITY:			HOLLISTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01746
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5088938999

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		84 OCTOBER HILL ROAD
		CITY:			HOLLISTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01746

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GREEN DAVID
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001008643

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-33957
		FILM NUMBER:		15987857

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC
		STREET 2:		84 OCTOBER HILL ROAD
		CITY:			HOLLISTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01746-1371
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        <footnote id="F1">This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $5.25 to $5.35. The price reported above reflects the weighted average sale [or purchase] price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares and prices at which the transaction was effected.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Includes (a) a deferred stock award of 29,215 restricted stock units which vest on January 1, 2016; (b) a deferred stock award of 27,375 restricted stock units which vest in equal installments on January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017; (c) a deferred stock award of 14,400 restricted stock units which fully vest on the earlier of (i) the date of the Issuer's next Annual Meeting of Stockholders after June 4, 2015, immediately prior to the commencement of such meeting, and (ii) June 4, 2016; and (d) 446,188 shares of common stock held by the Reporting Person.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $5.25 to $5.33. The price reported above reflects the weighted average sale [or purchase] price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares and prices at which the transaction was effected.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Includes (a) a deferred stock award of 29,215 restricted stock units which vest on January 1, 2016; (b) a deferred stock award of 27,375 restricted stock units which vest in equal installments on January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017; (c) a deferred stock award of 14,400 restricted stock units which fully vest on the earlier of (i) the date of the Issuer's next Annual Meeting of Stockholders after June 4, 2015, immediately prior to the commencement of such meeting, and (ii) June 4, 2016; and (d) 435,661 shares of common stock held by the Reporting Person.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $5.25 to $5.30. The price reported above reflects the weighted average sale [or purchase] price. The reporting person hereby undertakes to provide upon request to the SEC staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares and prices at which the transaction was effected.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Includes (a) a deferred stock award of 29,215 restricted stock units which vest on January 1, 2016; (b) a deferred stock award of 27,375 restricted stock units which vest in equal installments on January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017; (c) a deferred stock award of 14,400 restricted stock units which fully vest on the earlier of (i) the date of the Issuer's next Annual Meeting of Stockholders after June 4, 2015, immediately prior to the commencement of such meeting, and (ii) June 4, 2016; and (d) 421,066 shares of common stock held by the Reporting Person.</footnote>
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    <remarks>The reported sales were made pursuant to the terms of a 10b5-1 trading plan. This form has been signed under power of attorney. Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Limited Power of Attorney.</remarks>

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EXHIBIT 24
	LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

David Green hereby appoints each of Burns & Levinson LLP of Boston,
Massachusetts, acting through its designated attorneys and paralegals, as well
as the Chief Financial Officer and Manager, SEC Reporting and Technical
Accounting, each of Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), to be the true and lawful attorney-in-fact (each, his "Attorney") in
his name and on his behalf to individually:

	(1) prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5
(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of the
Company, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national
securities exchanges and the Company, all as considered necessary or advisable
under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the "Exchange
Act");

	(2) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the
undersigned's behalf, if necessary or advisable in connection with performing
the acts described in (1) above or under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act,
information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third party,
including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the
undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to
the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

	(3) perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such
attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned
in connection with the foregoing, including, without limitation, the
preparation, execution and filing of SEC Form ID's with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

	(1) this Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, such
attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such
attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information and such
attorney-in-fact may presume that any such information he receives is accurate
and complete and he has no obligation to independently verify such information
and is not responsible for any liability based on the inaccuracy or
incompleteness of such information as it is provided by the undersigned;

	(2) any documents prepared and/or executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf
of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited Power of Attorney will be in such
form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact,
in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

	(3) neither the Company nor such attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for
the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange
Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such
requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit
disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

	(4) this Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the
Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.


	The undersigned hereby gives and grants the foregoing attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing
matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if present, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact of, for an on
behalf of he undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this Limited Power of Attorney. This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in
full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to such attorney-in-fact.

	This Limited Power of Attorney may be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any other federal, state or foreign securities regulators, and other
entities as a confirming statement of the authority granted herein.

	IN WITNESS whereof this Limited Power of Attorney has been duly executed this
3rd day of March, 2014.


						/s/ David Green
						David Green








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