George Lincoln Goodale

George Lincoln Goodale
BornAugust 3, 1839
DiedApril 12, 1923(1923-04-12) (aged 83)
Saco, Maine
Alma materAmherst College
Harvard Medical School
Known forGlass Flowers
Scientific career
InstitutionsBowdoin College
Harvard University
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Signature of George Lincoln Goodale

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.