WORK OF IGNAZ MATAUSCH 



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bers of the preparation staff in the 

 Woods Hole annulate group and the 

 Vineyard Ha\en wharf-pile group. 



At the time of his (k^ath, Mr. Ma- 

 tausch was putting the greater part of 

 his time and attention on his important 

 share in the complex and ambitious 

 Nahant tide-pool group, which is as yet 

 incomplete. The modeling and color- 

 ing of the natural bridge of rock which is 

 to arch the tide pool was entirely his 

 work and for months he had labored 

 industriously assembling the thousands 

 of separate casts which go to make up 

 the great zone of barnacles, one of the 



conspicuous features of the group. This 

 part of the work he left complete. 

 Other artists, meanwhile, were modeling 

 and coloring rockweed, preparing sea- 

 weed and sea animals for the under- 

 water portion of the group, and Mr. 

 Matausch was engaged alternately in 

 assembling these and in constructing the 

 important starfish colony for the group, 

 when he was taken with the illness 

 which resulted in his death. His un- 

 finished work nnist be completed by 

 others, V)ut what he has done for the 

 Museum will remain in its halls as a 

 fitting memorial to his great ability. 



One of the many interesting models in the Darwin hall made by Mr. Matausch in collaboration with Mr. 

 Mueller, glass blower, and Mr. Shimitori, colorist. This model, 8,000 times actual size, represents the tip of a 

 "sea whip" with some of the tiny polyps which builil it up as the coral polyps build up coral 



