![12th Decbr. 1886
Mr. Handley Hon. Secretary Jeypore India
I have duly perceived your postcard of Octbr 19th as well as your Favor of Novbr 8th the latter with an annexed list of
glass-models of Invertebrates, which you ordered for the Jeypore Museum. According to your wish I have with Mr.
Damon all perfectly arranged; I will begin next time to make the models (as I have nothing in stock) and send them, as
soon as they are ready, exactly in conformity to your appointments. As to your inquiry where in our vicinity
preparations of papier-mâché (sic) [NOTE: should be papier-mâche] and other museum requisites are to be sold I know
and can recommend (to) you especially the commercial establishment of the naturalist Mr. V. Fric, Wladislaw g.21.A. of
Prague (Austria) who has I believe has his own fabric of such articles in stock of all Museum requisites. In the course of
the next year I also will make some studies in Botanical objects. The directors in Cambridge, Mass. (U. S. of America) are
intending to found a national Botanical Museum, and I was requested to try to make glass models of American plants,
especially of the beautiful forms of the Orchideae (sic)in their live state with great success. Of the Indian Orchideae (sic)
I had fini (finished (?)) the following species: Vanda insignis, Cypripedium venustum & insigne, Saccolabium, Sarcanthus,
Dendrobium sanguinolentum, several Aorides, Chaysis albiflora, Calanthemsassica, Pleione maculata, Cymbidium,
Coelogyne a. others; also from other plants the Hoya imperialis, Enkianthus etc. As these preparations had been more
partly in remembrance of my own voyages and the preliminary of my models of invertebrate animals which occupied
my interest. Actually I never offered them to Museums. But by the by (sic) as we speak of, if you are fond of them and
like to have some, I am ready to make you later some of them.
26th Decbr
Mr. Damon
At first you receive my best thanks for the two addresses for which I am much obliged to you. As to other models of
botanic and the anatomy of fishes if you guess it advantageous enough to undertake a mediation, I think it best to
induce those museums of persons who are inquiring after such models, to send me drawings of the required objects. In
this case I will also prepare such models, to send me drawings of the required objects. In this case I will also prepare
such models to please you on the next week I will begin with the models for Jeypore.
I wish you a happy and prosperous new year and season.
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- 1. Glass Models and Natural History John Mathew
- 4. Definitions • Representation • Museum • Natural History
- 5. Representation • A call up in the mind by description or portrayal or imagination…. an effort to serve as a likeness of. (Concise Oxford Dictionary, paraphrased)
- 7. Loxodonta africana Elephas maximus
- 10. Two Questions • Did the painter, Nicolas Poussin (1594 AD-1665 AD) know that there were different kinds of elephants? • What might Hannibal (247 BC-183 BC) actually have used?
- 11. Albrecht Durer’s Rhinoceros (1515)
- 12. Great Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
- 17. Museum • Building used for storing and exhibition of objects illustrating antiquities, natural history, arts, etc. (Concise Oxford Dictionary)
- 19. Natural History 1) The study of natural objects, especially of animal or vegetable life and especially as set forth for popular use. 2) An aggregate of facts about the natural objects or the characteristics of a place or class. (Concise Oxford Dictionary)
- 20. Harvard Museum of Natural History
- 21. Great Hall of Mammals
- 22. Romer Hall of Vertebrate Palaeontology
- 23. The Glass Flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
- 24. Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
- 26. Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939)
- 28. The Natural History Museum, London
- 30. Natural History Museum, Trivandrum
- 33. The Indian Museum (1866), Calcutta
- 35. 12th Decbr. 1886 Mr. Handley Hon. Secretary Jeypore India I have duly perceived your postcard of Octbr 19th as well as your Favor of Novbr 8th the latter with an annexed list of glass-models of Invertebrates, which you ordered for the Jeypore Museum. According to your wish I have with Mr. Damon all perfectly arranged; I will begin next time to make the models (as I have nothing in stock) and send them, as soon as they are ready, exactly in conformity to your appointments. As to your inquiry where in our vicinity preparations of papier-mâché (sic) [NOTE: should be papier-mâche] and other museum requisites are to be sold I know and can recommend (to) you especially the commercial establishment of the naturalist Mr. V. Fric, Wladislaw g.21.A. of Prague (Austria) who has I believe has his own fabric of such articles in stock of all Museum requisites. In the course of the next year I also will make some studies in Botanical objects. The directors in Cambridge, Mass. (U. S. of America) are intending to found a national Botanical Museum, and I was requested to try to make glass models of American plants, especially of the beautiful forms of the Orchideae (sic)in their live state with great success. Of the Indian Orchideae (sic) I had fini (finished (?)) the following species: Vanda insignis, Cypripedium venustum & insigne, Saccolabium, Sarcanthus, Dendrobium sanguinolentum, several Aorides, Chaysis albiflora, Calanthemsassica, Pleione maculata, Cymbidium, Coelogyne a. others; also from other plants the Hoya imperialis, Enkianthus etc. As these preparations had been more partly in remembrance of my own voyages and the preliminary of my models of invertebrate animals which occupied my interest. Actually I never offered them to Museums. But by the by (sic) as we speak of, if you are fond of them and like to have some, I am ready to make you later some of them. 26th Decbr Mr. Damon At first you receive my best thanks for the two addresses for which I am much obliged to you. As to other models of botanic and the anatomy of fishes if you guess it advantageous enough to undertake a mediation, I think it best to induce those museums of persons who are inquiring after such models, to send me drawings of the required objects. In this case I will also prepare such models, to send me drawings of the required objects. In this case I will also prepare such models to please you on the next week I will begin with the models for Jeypore. I wish you a happy and prosperous new year and season. -----
- 36. The Albert Industrial Museum (1887), Jaipur
- 41. Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Originator of the term ‘Ecology’ from the Greek ‘Oikos’ which means house.
- 60. Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939)
- 61. Thank You