Sea life stars in museum’s glass menagerie

Before their famous flowers, the Blaschkas crafted sea creatures

Tubularia indivisa

INTRICATE INVERTEBRATES  This oaten pipes hydroid (Tubularia indivisa) is part of new exhibit of glass sea invertebrates.

Lent by Dept. of Eco. & Evo. Bio./Cornell Univ. L.17.3.63-551

From 1863 to 1890, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made more than 10,000 sea creatures out of glass.