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Brewster reading event at Wells Reserve
Join York County Audubon and bird watcher Dianne Ballon for readings from the journals of ornithologist William Brewster! This program will be presented in-person in the Mather Auditorium, and will also be live-streamed via Zoom. It will be free and open...

April Collins

An Evening with William Brewster poster

Mulliken Clock
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 ,  April Collins

antique clock face with roman numerals

Burkhardt and Wikimedia Commons
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

James Henry Blake (1845-1941)
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

Andrew Garrett and the MCZ
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

Celebrating Robert Gilbert
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

Happy Earth Day! MCZ Image Tagging Event April 21-24, 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...

Remote Library Resources: Tips from the Ernst Mayr Library Staff
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...

Transcribe William Brewster's Journals and Diaries
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

title page of Brewster's handwritten 1871 journal

BHL at Biodiversity_Next by Grace Costantino
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...

Pop-up exhibit Friday, October 25, 2019, 2:00-4:30pm!
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...