EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

	Exhibit 24

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Katherine A. Eade, hereby appoints Burns & Levinson LLP of Boston,
Massachusetts, acting through its designated attorneys and paralegals, to be the
true and lawful attorney-in-fact (his "Attorney") in his name and on his behalf
to:

      (1) 	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5
(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of Harvard
Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation (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
30th day of October, 2017.

						/s/ Katherine A. Eade
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						Katherine A. Eade