Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Agassiz Museum
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Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College
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Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University
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The Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University is a center for research and education focused on the comparative relationships of animal life. The MCZ was founded in 1859 through the efforts of zoologist Louis Agassiz; the museum used to be referred to as "The Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology" after its founder. Agassiz designed the collection to illustrate the variety and comparative relationships of animal life.
The MCZ one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Natural History. MCZ collections are comprised of approximately 21-million extant and fossil invertebrate and vertebrate specimens, which continue to be a focus of research and teaching for MCZ, Harvard and outside students and researchers.
The Museum is comprised of 9 departments (Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Malacology, Mammalogy, Ornithology and Vertebrate Paleontology), in addition to the Ernst Mayr Library and the Concord Field Station.
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Biology
Entomology
Geological surveys
Herpetology
Ichthyology
Invertebrates
Invertebrates, Fossil
Malacology
Mammalogy
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Oceanography
Ornithology
Vertebrates, Fossil
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Geologists
Ornithologists
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Zoologists
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Cambridge
MA, US
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26 Oxford Street
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Cambridge
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MA
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02138
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