George Lincoln Goodale
George Lincoln Goodale | |
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Born | August 3, 1839 |
Died | April 12, 1923 Saco, Maine | (aged 83)
Alma mater | Amherst College Harvard Medical School |
Known for | Glass Flowers |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Bowdoin College Harvard University |
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George Lincoln Goodale (August 3, 1839 – April 12, 1923) was an American botanist and the first director of Harvard's Botanical Museum (now part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History). It was he who commissioned the making of the university's legendary Glass Flowers collection.
Early life
Goodale was born in Saco, Maine.[1] He graduated from Amherst College in 1860 and from Harvard Medical School in 1863, after which he practiced in Portland, Maine, until 1867.
Career
Goodale became
Glass Flowers
At some point during his career as a Harvard/Radcliffe Professor, Goodale taught avid Botany student
But investments require fund, and to cover such an expensive enterprise Goodale approached his former student Mary Lee Ware and her mother with his idea. Being independently wealthy and (already) liberal benefactors of Harvard's botanical department,[7] Mary convinced her mother to agree to underwrite the consignment of the uncannily lifelike models they both were enchanted by. The contract signed dictated that the Blaschkas need only work half-time on the models (beginning in 1887) but, in 1890, they and Goodale - signing on behalf of the Wares - signed an updated version that allowed Leopold and Rudolf to work on them full-time;[8][9] some sources detail the agreement as a shift from a 3-year contract to a 10-year one, agreed to once Goodale convinced Mary and her mother of the wisdom in doing so. Either way, the Wares liberally funded the entire enterprise.[4] To this day the now world famous Glass Flowers are still on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History — the exhibit itself dedicated to Dr. Charles Eliot Ware (the deceased father and husband of Mary L. and Elizabeth C. Ware respectively), the official name being The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. Moreover, unlike the glass marine invertebrates — which were "a profitable global mail-order business",[3] the Glass Flowers were commissioned solely for and are unique to Harvard.
Other
Goodale was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874.[10] In 1889, he served as president of the American Society of Naturalists and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1890 and the American Philosophical Society in 1893.[11][12] He also had a wife and son, the latter of whom, Francis Goodale, is known to have attended Mary Lee Ware's funeral on January 12 at King's Chapel.[13] Goodale died in 1923 after, and presumably as a result of, an unknown illness. He was succeeded by Professor Oakes Ames,[14][15] who takes up Goodale's work at the suggestion of Prof. Henshaw and is eventually made the second director of Harvard's Botanical Museum by President Lowell,[16] becoming an additional contact of Mary Lee Ware regarding the as yet unfinished Glass Flowers enterprise.[17]
Miscellaneous
In addition to monographs and contributions to scientific journals, his publications include:
- Wild Flowers of North America (1882)
- Vegetable Physiology (1885)
- Vegetable Histology (1885)
- Useful Plants of the Future (1891)
- Concerning a Few Common Plants (1879); third edition, 1903
References
- ^ Marquis, Albert Nelson (1915). Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A.N. Marquis. p. 464.
- ISBN 978-0-801-83741-8.
- ^ a b Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants
- ^ a b c National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
- ^ a b Goodyear, Anne Collins, and Weitekamp, Margaret A. Analyzing Art and Aesthetics. Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology ; v. 9. 2013.
- ^ The Glass Flowers
- ^ Flowers that never fade / Franklin Baldwin Wiley. Boston Bradlee Whidden, Publisher 1897.
- ^ Schultes, Richard Evans., William A. Davis, and Hillel Burger. The Glass Flowers at Harvard. New York: Dutton, 1982. Print.
- ^ The Archives of Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants
- ^ "George Lincoln Goodale | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "George Goodale". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "Police Return Runaway - Boy-to Concord-Parents". Fitchburg Sentinel. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. January 13, 1937. p. 3.
- ^ Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries (Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES))
- ^ "The Orchid Library of Oakes Ames". Archived from the original on 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
- ^ Oakes Ames Correspondence: Botany Libraries, Archives of the Economic Botany Herbarium of Oakes Ames, Harvard University Herbaria
- JSTOR 41762212.
External links
- The Story of Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka on YouTube
- The Glass Flowers (Harvard)
- The Glass Flowers (Corning)
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