Word: blaschkas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...central part of the floor space is occupied by a table from which descriptive pamphlets of the University are distributed, and by a case, in front of all, of the Blaschka glass flowers. Here also is a set of photographs of leading divines from all parts of the country who have served in former years as preachers to the University. It makes a remarkable collection...
Visitors to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass models of flowers have noticed that new cases have recently been constructed in the large entry. These new exhibition cases are for the reception of specimens illustrating the vegetable products useful to man. Thus space will be afforded for the illustrations which are designed to exhibit all of the relations of plants to each other and to their surroundings. Probably it will require at least two years more for the installation of the specimens which show the effect of differences in soil and exposure upon the forms of plants...
...large room the Ware collection of Blaschka glass models will be considerably increased, and the models themselves re-arranged to bring out as clearly as may be the affinities of the different groups. The balcony will soon have cases for the reception of the specimens expected in March and the whole series will be supplemented by the very interesting collection of flowerless plants placed in the Museum by Professors Farlow and Thaxter. Professor Goodale states that the Blaschkas, father and son, now send annually one hundred complete models with all analytical details. At this rate of activity of production, there...
...more recent additions to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers are now in place in the cases, and serve to indicate even more fully than the previous consignments, the range of artistic skill possessed by the Blaschkas. In the management of color the artists have surmounted difficulties which might have been regarded as insuperable, but in all instances the various tints, hues and shades are perfect copies of the originals, and to this is added the representation of texture...
...instalment of the wonderful Blaschka glass flowers has arrived at the Agassiz Museum...