Word: hosterwitz
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work. This means that the collection has probably reached its final form, the annual report of Oakes Ames '98, Director of the Botanical Museum, disclosed Saturday...
...shortly after the establishment of the Botanical Museum, George Lincoln Goodale, professor of Botany and first Curator of the Museum, was looking for a concrete exhibit to give the museum a firm start. He heard of the work of Leopold Blaschka, Rudolph's father, and went over to Hosterwitz. On the mantel were two models of orchids...
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