FLOWERS OF THE PAST.
In some of the Paris museums are to be seen collections of wax models of the flowers of plants of the Eocene age. The story of how these have been obtained is an interesting one. The growing plants were enveloped in calcareous mud, which afterward hardened to travertine. Then the vegetable matter decaying left delicate molds of their form in the rock. Into these molds melted wax was introduced under an air pump, and the calcareous matter then dissolved by acid. The result was these wonderfully perfect wax models of the delicate organs of the plants i>hich lived in France long’ere the advent of
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Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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108FLOWERS OF THE PAST. Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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