From the February 6, 1932, issue
By Science News
EVERY SNOWFLAKE A UNIQUE JEWEL
Up in the mountains of Vermont, where the winters are long and the snow falls frequently, there died a few weeks ago a quiet, retiring man who was the worlds foremost snow artist. His name was Wilson Bentley. He was not one of the numerous tribe of Michelangelos of melting marble, whose snow sculptures get into the newsreels and rotogravure sections. His was a far more difficult art, for it dealt with single flakes rather than great lumps of matted snow; yet though it dealt with single flakes, it was a more permanent art than the efforts of these gravers of Earths most impermanent plastic.