# EML Blog Sort & Filters close ## Filters blog categories expand\_more - \#BHLNDSR (7) - Agassiz (10) - Alexander Agassiz (2) - Andrew Garrett (1) - Biodiversity Heritage Library (43) - EOL (4) - Ernst Mayr Library (49) - Exhibits (10) - Graduate Students (3) - Hassler (7) - Hubert Lyman Clark (1) - Jacques Burkhardt (3) - James H. 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[April Collins](/people/april-collins) ![loose stack of MCZ publications](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/IMG_3012.jpg?itok=mQO5lEPg) [### Mulliken Clock ](/news/2025/01/mulliken-clock) January 31, 2025 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... [Mary Sears](/people/mary-sears) , [April Collins](/people/april-collins) ![antique clock face with roman numerals](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/IMG_1399.jpg?itok=1ICYiCyh) [### Burkhardt and Wikimedia Commons ](/blog/burkhardt-and-wikimedia-commons) July 29, 2022 This summer, I had the opportunity to work with Harvard Library as a UX and Discovery intern. This internship program is born out of a partnership between Harvard Library’s UX and Discovery team and the University of Michigan’s School of Information... ![watercolor sketch of a green Cichlid](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library/files/640px-aequidens_sp._lago_jose_assu_brazil.jpg?itok=L0PAsZ_2) [### James Henry Blake (1845-1941) ](/blog/james-henry-blake-1845-1941) September 21, 2020 By Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian Best known as the Hassler Expedition’s young zoological artist from Provincetown, Blake entered business in early life with his stepfather before deciding to enroll at Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School in... ![photographic portrait of Blake with a thick white mustache and black suit looking directly at the viewer in a self assured manner](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library/files/blake_portrait_old.jpeg?itok=VBVOVRLK) [### Andrew Garrett and the MCZ ](/blog/andrew-garrett-and-mcz) July 30, 2020 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... ![color illustration of shell species and handwritten notes](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library/files/rsz_1garrett-shells-1web.jpg?h=b868142c&itok=jrdXrKM9) [### Celebrating Robert Gilbert ](/blog/celebrating-robert-gilbert) June 05, 2020 Robert A. Gilbert (1870-1942) was an African-American naturalist and photographer, the long-time assistant to ornithologist William Brewster and a staff member of the MCZ. He was an Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union. The MCZ Archives holds... ![handwritten letter on yellow paper](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/library/files/gilbertbrewsterjuly1898_01.jpg?itok=S7hDzllz) [### Happy Earth Day! MCZ Image Tagging Event April 21-24, 2020 ](/blog/happy-earth-day-mcz-image-tagging-event-april-21-24-2020) April 22, 2020 Join the Ernst Mayr Library and MCZ Archives in a tagging event for MCZ or other FLICKR images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library ! We are celebrating Earth Day by making species images easier to find. The Ernst Mayr Library and MCZ Archives is a... description [### Remote Library Resources: Tips from the Ernst Mayr Library Staff ](/blog/remote-library-resources-tips-ernst-mayr-library-staff) March 27, 2020 The Ernst Mayr Library location is currently closed, but the staff are working remotely and available to help. While we cannot access our print collection we recommend the online resources below. Some repositories, such as the Biodiversity Heritage... description [### Transcribe William Brewster's Journals and Diaries ](/blog/transcribe-william-brewsters-journals-and-diaries) March 25, 2020 The Ernst Mayr Library has digitized more than 56,000 pages of the journals and diaries of William Brewster, a prolific ornithologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These are mostly handwritten volumes that are not suitable for Optical... [Joe DeVeer](/people/joe-deveer) ![title page of Brewster's handwritten 1871 journal](/sites/g/files/omnuum6411/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/journals18711911brew_0004.jpg?h=4647224c&itok=SldfaIUV) [### BHL at Biodiversity\_Next by Grace Costantino ](/blog/bhl-biodiversitynext-grace-costantino) November 12, 2019 BHL at Biodiversity Next Biodiversity_Next main conference venue, Stadsgehoorzaal, in Leiden, Netherlands. Photo Credit: Grace Costantino. In October 2019, more than 700 people from over 75 countries gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands for Biodiversity... description [### Pop-up exhibit Friday, October 25, 2019, 2:00-4:30pm! ](/blog/pop-exhibit-today) October 25, 2019 Please join us for a pop-up exhibit* in the Special Collections at the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. History of Biology: Collecting, Classifying, Cells and Cats . Friday, October 25, 2019, 2:00-4:30pm Highlights of this... description [### BHL at the 2019 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Digital Data in Biodiversity Meetings ](/blog/bhl-2019-society-preservation-natural-history-collections-spnhc-and-digital-data) August 20, 2019 SPNHC and Digital Data Conferences Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director) and Connie Rinaldo (Chair of the BHL Members’ Council) attended the recent Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections(SPNHC) meeting held 25-31 May 2019 and... description - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 12 ](?page=11 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")