RUDOLPH TbLASCHKA, WHO MODELED 

 THE FLOWERS, AT WORK ON A 

 NEW COLLECTION 



Rudolph Blaschka, the artist who, 

 with his father, modeled the famous 

 "glass flowers" In the Botanical Mu^ 

 isoum at Harvard University, has begun 

 work on a supplementary collection of 

 glass models of grasses and sedges, 

 which will be displayed on their com- 

 pletion in- a room adjoining the Ware 

 collection of glass flowers. 



Funds for the first half-year have al- 

 ready gone forward to the artist, and 

 Walter Deane, '70, formerly president of 

 the New England Botanical Club, has 

 consented to aid in providing him with 

 American material for the construction 

 of the new models. 



The Ware collection now on exhibition 

 ( will be practically complete when twenty 

 models and fifty magnified anatomical 

 details, now in the artist's studio in Ger- 

 many, have been transported to this coun- 

 try. Under existing conditions It is un- 

 safe to transport them, especially as thfllr 

 removal "in bond" to Boston cannot yft 

 be secured. Up to the time of tft^ war, 

 the glass flowers were shipped direct to 

 Boston and then by the courtesy of the 

 Custom House officials were carried di- 

 rectly to the museum in Cambridge snel 

 were unpacked safely at the university. 



The collection now Illustrates 160 fami- 

 lies of (lowering plants, 540 genera, <»nd 

 803 species, and there are more than SJWO 

 analytical magnified details. The fanare 

 1 of the exhibition Is sufficiently extensive 

 to give a clear idea of the relations of 

 these important families and species to 

 each other. The inimitable skill which lias 

 copied in glass every minute detail "f 

 structure of (ho plants, has been wholly 

 devoted to Harvard University. All of 

 the specimens which have been made since 

 1895 are the artistic handiwork of itudolph 

 Blaschka. who haa carried on all of his ! 

 study and his modelling single-handed In 

 his studio in Germany, 



