“Two ladies of Boston have provided the funds by which this magnificent gift to Harvard University and to botanical science is rendered possible.  The collection is to be in memory of the late Dr. Charles E. Ware, of Boston, an enthusiastic lover of natural history.  The collection is now accessible to the public, and it will soon be provided with a descriptive catalogue in preparation by Dr. Goodale.  The discovery that these remarkable German artists possessed the skill to prepare in permanent glass perfectly faithful copies of flowers and the parts of flowers, and the securing of this skill for his university and for America, may be fairly regarded as an important achievement in a busy life.”

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The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 39, 1891, page 694