. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. i'ASD students Candy Pent and America Sanchez enter data for insect specimens. At left: Brian farreil and America Sanchez build insect draiuers. MCZ History: Alfred Russel Wallace Among Louis and Alexander Agassiz's many important contributions to the world of natural history museums was the idea of designing public exhibits according to biogeography—clustering species from the collections based on where they occur naturally. This novel idea was immediately appreciated by 19th-century English explorer and naturalist Alfred Rus
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. i'ASD students Candy Pent and America Sanchez enter data for insect specimens. At left: Brian farreil and America Sanchez build insect draiuers. MCZ History: Alfred Russel Wallace Among Louis and Alexander Agassiz's many important contributions to the world of natural history museums was the idea of designing public exhibits according to biogeography—clustering species from the collections based on where they occur naturally. This novel idea was immediately appreciated by 19th-century English explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who visited the MCZ and wrote about it in his book >\mer/can Museums (1887): "The most cursory inspection ... will teach the visitor a lesson in natural history that he will not learn by a dozen visits to our great national storehouse at South Kensington—the lesson that each continent has its peculiar forms of life, and that the greatest similarity in geographical position and climate may be accompanied by a complete diversity in the animal ; "Professor Agassiz intended his museum ... 'to illustrate the history of creation, as far as the present state of scientific knowledge reveals that history.' It is surely an anomaly that the naturalist who was most opposed to the theory of evolution should be the first to arrange his museum in such a way as best to illustrate that theory. MCZ exhibition of South American fauna, 1892 ^^^—^ Annu.\l Report 2011-2012. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. [Cambridge, Mass. ] : Harvard University
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