Agassiz

Celebrate the beginning of spring semester and the return of the "heartbeat" of the Ernst Mayr Library, the historic tall case clock. Made by Jonathan Mulliken (1746-1782) in Newbury, MA, this clock which belonged to Alexander Agassiz was given to the...

By Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian On 29 January 1855, Andrew Garrett, a thirty-one-year-old self-trained naturalist living in Hilo, Hawaii, wrote a letter to Louis Agassiz-- who was soliciting contributions of zoological specimens for Harvard...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] The last main station of the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition before reaching its...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] By the end of May 1872 the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition had reached the warm...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] As the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition reached Patagonia and the Strait of...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] After being prevented from going onshore in Recife due to a yellow fever outbreak in...

Meredith Golomb ’90, MD ’94, wrote these poems as an undergraduate student at Harvard. A copy was found here at the Library among the papers of Prof. Ruth Dixon Turner (1914-2000). Golomb says she must have crossed paths with Prof. Turner multiple times...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] As the year of 1871 was drawing to a close the Hassler steamed its way off the U.S...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] Things did not look too good at the outset of the Hassler deep-sea dredging...

Recently installed in the library was this exhibition showcasing a selection of ichthyological drawings, engravings and manuscripts from Special Collections. Most famous at the MCZ due to their having been digitized and reproduced in books examining the...