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Journey to Brazil with Burkhardt

The Burkhardt collection celebrates the work of Agassiz's principal artist, Jacques Burkhardt
Mollusks from the Indian Ocean

Two new species of Murex S.S. (Mollusca:Gastropoda:Muricidae) from the northern Indian Ocean
Visiting the Ernst Mayr Library

The Library is a user-focused environment providing students & faculty a place to work with historical and new materials
Four New Species Documented

Four new species have been documented and described by Harvard Prof. Gonzalo Giribet and biologist William Shear
Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Ernst Mayr Library is a founding member of the BHL which is digitizing the legacy literature of biodiversity.
Thayer Expedition Papers

The Ernst Mayr Library’s Thayer Expedition Papers include field notes, specimen lists, correspondence, diaries, and sketches
Ernst Mayr served as Director of the MCZ from 1961-1970

Prof. Romer (left) welcomes Prof. Mayr (right) to his new office.
Portrait unveiling event

Ernst Mayr stands by his portrait in the Mayr Library
6 day old larval zebrafish Transgenic line isl2b labeling projections from retina to brain & habenula to interpeduncular nucleus

Image credit: Clemens Riegler, Engert Lab
Embryo from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans stained with a marker of cell boundaries (green) and polarized epithelia (red)

Image credit: Steven Von Stetina, Mango lab
Stabilized microtubules in Xenopus oocyte extracts are organized by motor proteins into networks of interconnected asters

Image credit: Peter Foster, Needleman Lab
3D reconstruction of organelles in the cell body of a neuron in mouse cortex from serial-section electron microscopy (ATUM-SEM)

Image credit: Daniel Berger, Lichtman lab
A slice of mouse cerebral cortex, with identifiable neuronal cell bodies, dendrites and capillaries, beneath a human hair

Image credit: Daniel Berger, Lichtman lab
Cervical vertebrae from Globicephala melaena (Traill, 1809), long-finned pilot whale, specimen no. 64074

Formerly on exhibit at the Northwest Science Building with related materials from the Ernst Mayr Library collection
From the Ernst Mayr Library Archives

This 1950s photograph of the MCZ fossils gallery is currently displayed at an exhibit at the Northwest Building

view of Special Collections

The Ernst Mayr Library Special Collections and MCZ Archives Reading Room

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Exhibits & Digital Projects

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