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devotion that every one must sympathize 

 with and honor, insists upon completing 

 the memorial with his own hand alone. As 

 he is now only in his forty-first year and 

 comes of a long-lived ancestry, his laudable 

 ambition seems likely to be fully realized, 

 especially as he brings to its fulfilment not 

 only inherited technical skill and deep love 

 for his father's memory, but keen artistic 

 enthusiasm and scientific knowledge of a 

 high order. 



Thus the Ware Collection bids fair to re- 

 main forever unique. For, with the excep- 

 tion of a vase of orchids made by the elder 

 Blaschka for his wife, a few fruits in the 

 Botanical Museum at Dresden, and a single 

 spray of flowers made for Mrs. Ware and 

 Miss Ware, there are no other models ex- 

 tant except those in the memorial collec- 

 tion at Harvard. 



