Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Location:
Agassiz Hall
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA

Affiliation:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard College

Founded:
1859

Collections:
The Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) holds Harvard's various zoological specimen collections, as well as the Blaschka Glass Invertebrates collection and specimens used in genetic research. The zoological collections are divided into Departmental Collections:

• Entomology (insects)
  
• Herpetology (reptiles & amphibians
  
• Ichthyology (fish)
  
• Invertebrate Paleontology
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Malacology (mollusks)
  
• Mammalogy (mammals)
  
• Marine Invertebrates
• Orinthology (birds)
  
• Vertebrate Paleontology
  

The MCZ also includes live specimens, which can be found at the Concord Field Station, and text-based materials, which are located at the Ernst Mayr Library.

Publications:

• The MCZ collections are indexed in a searchable database.
  

• Records of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1860-1985. 
• Publications of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1990. 
  
• Edward Lurie. The Founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1959.
  

Contact:
617.495.2460