Sea life stars in museum’s glass menagerie
Before their famous flowers, the Blaschkas crafted sea creatures
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.