The Harvard book . Class of 1900,who died in his Junior year. THE A. B. A. HARVARD BOOK T^HE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM comprehends the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Botanical,Geological, Mineralogical Museums, and the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology andEthnology. It had its start in the collections which Louis Agassiz began privately even beforehe came to Harvard in 1847. These collections were transferred to the college in 1852, andcontinued to grow under Professor Agassizs enthusiastic administration. In the Botanical Museum is located the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plantsan

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The Harvard book . Class of 1900,who died in his Junior year. THE A. B. A. HARVARD BOOK T^HE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM comprehends the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Botanical,Geological, Mineralogical Museums, and the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology andEthnology. It had its start in the collections which Louis Agassiz began privately even beforehe came to Harvard in 1847. These collections were transferred to the college in 1852, andcontinued to grow under Professor Agassizs enthusiastic administration. In the Botanical Museum is located the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plantsand Flowers given by Mrs. Charles Eliot Ware, and her daughter, Miss Mary Lee Ware, inmemory of Charles Eliot Ware, of the Class of 1834. This is a unique collection of glass models,begun in 1886 by Leopold Blaschka, and now carried on by his son Rudolph. It contains sevenhundred and twenty different specimens, with thirty-six hundred individual pieces of glass, andillustrating about seven hundred different UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

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