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137 results for "Ernst Mayr Library"

137 results for "Ernst Mayr Library"

Visiting the Ernst Mayr Library

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The Ernst Mayr Library is a user-focused environment that provides students and faculty with a place to research, learn, explore, contemplate, study and interact with historical materials and new research. The library welcomes Harvard's science community...

Welcome to the Ernst Mayr Library blog!

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In 1861 Louis Agassiz purchased books from the collection of Belgian paleontologist Laurent Guillaume de Koninick and along with Agassiz's personal collection, the MCZ Library was born. In October 1995, the library was renamed in honor of Ernst Mayr...

Ernst Mayr Library News

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Ernst Mayr Library News August 2019 Connie Rinaldo and Mary Sears Tours and Classes . If you are new on campus or are just starting a new project, a tour of the library might help! Library tours, research consultations, and group/class sessions are all...

Announcing the Ernst Mayr Library Website Redesign

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The Ernst Mayr Library is proud to announce the launch of its newly redesigned website powered by HWP's OpenScholar Platform. Although our website has changed, the URL has not; please continue to visit us at library.mcz.harvard.edu. The new look and...

Ernst Mayr Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Ernst Mayr Library is a founding member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their...

Pforzheimer Fellow Deirdre Moore at the Ernst Mayr Library

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Deirdre Moore, a graduate student in Harvard’s History of Science Department, spent the summer of 2015 working with the Ernst Mayr Library’s lantern slide collection. Harvard entomologists William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937), Charles T. Brues (1879-1955)...

Fish Treasures of the Ernst Mayr Library

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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...

ERNST MAYR: An Informal Chronology

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Ernst Mayr: An Informal Chronology Compiled by Robert Young 1904 Born July 5, in Kempten, Germany, to Otto and Helene Mayr. As a young boy, influenced by his father, a judge who was an amateur natural historian and paleontologist, Ernst Mayr began bird...