Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology
The Museum of Comparative Zoology and Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) is a Museum of Zoology of Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts).
The museum was founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz . After his death in 1873, his son Alexander Agassiz managed the facility until his death in 1910. While Louis Agassiz built the museum with the intention of finding the ideal types of divine creation by means of comparison , his son and pupil had turned to the Darwinian worldview and dedicated himself to his Work of evolutionary research .
The museum currently consists of twelve departments: Biological Oceanography , Entomology , Herpetology , Ichthyology , Mammalogy , marine invertebrates , mollusks , ornithology , paleontology of invertebrates, Paleontology, vertebrates , population genetics and zoology of invertebrates.
literature
- Mary P. Winsor: Reading the Shape of Nature. Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1991, p. 342. ISBN 0-226-90214-5
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Coordinates: 42 ° 22 ′ 42.5 " N , 71 ° 6 ′ 56" W.