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2 unusual facts about Museum of Comparative Zoology


Dick Harlow

In 1939, he was named curator of oology at the Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and he remained in that position until 1954.

James Hanken

James Hanken is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University as well as the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.


Calyptogena magnifica

Calyptogena magnifica was first described by Kenneth Boss and Ruth Turner of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, in 1980, following its discovery during research dives by the submersible vehicle DSV Alvin to the floor of the Pacific Ocean in 1977 and 1979.

Herbert Walter Levi

Herbert Walter Levi, (January 2, 1921 - ) Ph.D., was Alexander Agassiz professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Macabeemyrma

M. ovata was first studied by Dr. Bruce Archibald, Stefan Cover and Corrie Moreau of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their 2006 type description of the genus and species in an Annals of the Entomological Society of America journal article.

Parenthetical referencing

According to an 1896 paper by Charles Sedgwick Minot of the Harvard Medical School, the origin of the author-date style is attributed to a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard University, who may have copied it from the cataloguing system used then and now by the library of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Richard Machalek

Besides teaching at a number of universities, in 1986 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology under the tutelage of E.O. Wilson, and currently teaches sociology at the University Of Wyoming.

Scapanops

The fossil, now housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, was discovered by American paleontologist Alfred Romer on April 15, 1950 and was first mentioned in the scientific literature by paleontologist Robert L. Carroll in 1964.

Walcott–Rust quarry

In 1873 Walcott and Rust sold their collections to Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.


see also

Eulithomyrmex

The fossils were first studied by paleoentomologist Frank M. Carpenter of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.