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do again. Thus the principal difficulties 

 were overcome." 



All minor objections were eventually set 

 aside, and a satisfactory agreement was at 

 last reached on the Blaschkas' own terms. 

 This result was in no small degree due to 

 the strong desire of the elder artist to give 

 his son every opportunity to extend his re- 

 searches in botany, a study in which he 

 had already made considerable progress and 

 for which he showed a special fitness, and 

 also because of the kindly sentiment that 

 Leopold Blaschka had felt for America ever 

 since his visit to this continent in 1853. 



The artists began their work for Pro- 

 fessor Goodale in 1886, and they sent on 

 the case containing the first shipment of 

 specimens in the autumn of 1887. When 

 it arrived in Cambridge, Professor Good- 

 ale found that the fragile contents had been 

 badly broken by the carelessness of the in- 

 spectors in the custom house at New York. 

 They had opened the case of models and 

 unwrapped them in order to find out whether 

 there was any duty to be assessed upon 

 them, and had then nailed the case up again 

 and forwarded it to its destination without 

 troubling themselves about the condition 

 in which its contents would arrive there. 

 The result was that Professor Goodale, 

 to use his own ironical expression, "had 



