[1] He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated, and elaborated the theory that no two snowflakes are alike.

Bentley donated his collection of original glass-plate photomicrographs of snow crystals to the Buffalo Museum of Science.

“The farm folks up in this country dread the winter, but I was supremely happy.”[3] He tried to draw what he saw through an old microscope given to him by his mother when he was fifteen.

[7] In collaboration with George Henry Perkins, professor of natural history at the University of Vermont, Bentley published an article in which he argued that no two snow crystals were alike.

This concept caught the public imagination and he published other articles in magazines, including National Geographic, Nature, Popular Science, and Scientific American.

[11] At the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, a meteorological observation center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, there is an exhibit about atmospheric ice crystal formation featuring several of Bentley’s photos and a short biography.