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...Botanical Museum will display their Blaschka Glass Flower collection outside of the University for only the second time in 83 years, Richard E. Schultes '37, director of the museum said yesterday...
Louis C. Bierweiler, who began his career of caring for the famous Blaschka Glass Flowers at the University 56 years ago, will retire this summer. Seven million tourists have inspected the specimens during his years as Curator...
Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
...history of the Blaschka models goes back to 1886 and the founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done...
...only such exhibit in the world today, the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models, as both a scientific study and an artistic curiosity, has been one of Harvard University's most valuable possessions...