Word: flower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the substantial gifts received by the University during the last academic year one of the most valuable and interesting is the splendid collection of glass flower-models for the Potanical Department. This collection is presented by Mrs. E. C. Ware of Boston, in memory of her husband. Dr. Ware; and when placed in position in the room specially prepared for and devoted to it in the new Botanical Museum, will be known as the "Ware Memorial Collection...
...work. The models are made entirely of blown glass, and the modelling and coloring are so exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place in the system of classification. The details too minute to be seen readily by the naked eye are shown in guified to a convenient size...
...audience which crowded the Boston theatre last night was apparently not disappointed in "Kajanka." The play is purely spectacular, and the scenery very pretentious. One or two effective scenes, notably the flower scene, save the play from wearisomeness But on the whole. "Kajanka" is much like other plays of its kind. In the first act there were many hitches in the stage management, and the chorus showed defective training, but as the play progressed, a reasonable degree of smoothness was attained. The last act was old and tedious. Towards its close the audience caught sight of a small fire...