Plant Models 



1 David Henner (1898-1925, 



FM1917-1925) shown working on 



plant model in 1924. The 1925 



Annual Report observed: "(A 



model) of the Victoria regia was 



the last of the many creditable 



pieces of work produced by 



David Henner, before his untimely 



death by accidental drowning 



while swimming at the Dunes. ..." 



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JohnR. Millar (1899-1977, 

 FM1918-1968) was hired as a pre- 

 parator in the Department of 

 Botany. Shortly thereafter he 

 spent several months at the 

 USDA Plant Introduction Labora- 

 tory in Miami, Florida, where he 

 collected material and made 

 models for the Stanley Field 

 Collection of Plant Models. He 

 later accompanied expeditions to 

 British Guiana (1922), Brazil 

 (1926), and Nova Scotia 's Bay of 

 Fundy(1938). In 1937 Millar be- 

 came curator of the N. W. Harris 

 Public School Extension. In 1946 

 he was named deputy director of 

 the Museum and in 1960 became 

 chief curator of Botany. As well as 

 model-making, Millar participated 

 in the creation of dioramas, not- 

 ably that of intertidal vegetation 

 (case 78), in Plants of the World 

 Hall, which drew upon his 

 observations on the 

 Nova Scotia coast, mssu 



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