In a world before scuba diving, underwater photography or ocean life surveys, the Blaschkas' models proved an invaluable educational resource, with universities worldwide purchasing collections of glass specimens.
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Stupidest purchase A collection of ludicrous Vivien Westwood hats – £7,000.
She is also working on a novel, and hoping that a publisher will purchase her collection of short stories.
They have argued that the collection, kept in safes in Tel Aviv and Zurich, was a gift, and were backed by the German Literature Archive, which wished to purchase the collection.
Oxford and Cambridge are joining forces to purchase a collection of Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts spanning one thousand years of Jewish history.
The local municipalities were able to purchase the collection at a relatively low sum, 600,000 euros (about $815,000), when they agreed to build a museum to house it.
On 1 July 1823 George Agar Ellis, a Whig politician, proposed to the House of Commons that it purchase the collection.
The brothers have purchased private collections of bones as well as the contents from a museum that was shut down in a school in North York.
The poet purchased new collections of poetry, dense works of literary criticism and poetics, a study of Melville's poems, and a biography of Mallarmé.
