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...Harvard librarians still do not have the “foggiest notion” of how many volumes wrapped in human hide exist throughout the system, says Director of University Libraries Sidney Verba ’53. But they have identified three such volumes in the Langdell Law Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection. The three books range in content from medieval law to Roman poetry to French philosophy...
Jack Eckert, the reference librarian at the Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine in Longwood, writes in an e-mail that he believes only one human-skin volume exists in the Countway collection. According to Eckert, the Medical School’s 1597 French translation of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” bears a small penciled annotation, “Bound in human skin,” on the inside cover...
Bassin has requested that no copies of the text be made without her permission, said Jack Eckert, a librarian at Countway Medical Library where the dissertation is kept. Eckert said that some doctoral students are hesitant to allow their unpublished theses to be copied, “especially if it turns up in some other person’s publication...
...Friday, Hwang and his roommate crossed the Charles River to the Longwood Medical Campus to visit the Warren Anatomical Museum, located in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. Among its array of medical artifacts, the museum boasts the first ether inhaler, a skeleton of Siamese twins, and the skull of Phineas Gage—a railroad worker who experienced severe personality changes after a nail went through his frontal lobe...
...Graduate School of Education and the Countway Medical Library at the Medical School have also this week committed themselves to the Crimson Cash program, meaning that this fall will mark the first time all of Harvard’s graduate schools will participate in the service, Harvard University Dining Services Assistant Director for Business Applications Jeffrey B. Cuppett wrote in an e-mail...