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broken models, and then went back to 

 Germany. 



His second journey to this country was 

 made in 1895; and he was pursuing his 

 studies of the vegetation of the South when 

 his work was rudely interrupted by the sad 

 news of his father's death, and he sailed at 

 once for Germany. The elder Blaschka 

 was in his seventy-fourth year when he 

 died, and the illness that terminated thus 

 fatally lasted only a few days. 



