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to house a museum of comparative zoology; the building was completed in 1859. Its collections soon expanded beyond comparative zoology into other natural sciences. In 1901,
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The museum's collection is the oldest University collection in the country. It was established by
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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Louis Agassiz
University Museum building
Alexander Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Benjamin Waterhouse
Harvard Medical School
"The Museum"


"History"
"Harvard's Mineralogical Museum"
Bibcode
1976RoMin..51..242S
doi
10.1080/00357529.1976.11762801
ISSN
0035-7529
"Curators of the MGMH"
"Collections"
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