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Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories

Address24, Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number636
Building Root Number 04760
Architect (Original) The Architects Collaborative, Inc.
Constructed 1972
Building Acquired 1972
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after its function.Historical NotesThe Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories were designed by the noted Cambridge-based firm The Architects Collaborative and completed in 1972.Additional Information
Mayr, Ernst. Museums and Biological Laboratories. Cambridge, Mass., 1973. Ernst Mayr Library call number MCZ-M474.
Records of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1860-1985. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.xx.
Annual Report of the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Harvard University Archives call number HUF 298.xx and Museum of Comparative Zoology call number MUS 4890.4.
Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/62946#/summary.
Lurie, Edward. The Founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1959. Available at multiple locations with various call numbers consult HOLLIS for details.
Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7537#/summary.
General Information by and about the Friends of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, ca. 1975-1980. Harvard University Archives call number HUD 3409.3000.
General Information by and about the University Museum. Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1864.2.
"Agassiz Museum." [A clipping from the Boston Herald], 1911. Ernst Mayr Library call number MUS-A.-2624.
Pennisi, Elizabeth. "Shaking the Dust off Agassiz's Museum." Science. Vol. 313:5788, August 11, 2006, p.754.
"The Agassiz Museum at Cambridge." Science. Vol. 6:14, November 13, 1885, p.421-4.
"The Agassiz Museum is a Hundred." Harvard Alumni Bulletin, vol. 62:5, Nov. 1959, p. 203-204.
Museum of Comparative Zoology Library, Harvard University, 1983. Ernst Mayr Library call number Z733.H38 H4 1983.
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