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...Museum of Comparative Zoology is a welcoming museum. The entrance features a bright orange temporary exhibit enthusiastically titled, "Everybody Likes Trilobites--The Exhibit." It's a user-friendly exhibit that informs visitors, "Time treated the trilobites pretty well," and draws them further into the museum with a flourish: "This way to more fossil in vertebrates...
...newer exhibits make some use of modern technology. The Sound Production Morphology Exhibit allows visitors to hear dolphin and whale sounds at the touch of a button, and complementary computer-generated graphs display their frequencies. The real thrill of the museum, however, lies in exhibits which haven't been touched for years...
Indeed, complementing the fifty-foot finback whale hanging from the ceiling in the last exhibit room is a model of a whaling ship and an eyewitness account of a harpooning expedition which yielded "83 barrels of oil and 1000 pounds of whalebone, worth...
...McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...component of the museum.'" The truth is that for years we worked with NELC and other members of the Harvard faculty in planning our public programs and our publications. We sponsored an academic symposium in 1982 with Professor Isadore Twersky which resulted in a book publication; we curated the exhibit "Harvard's Arabian Nights" when Professor Muhsin Mahdi published a book about the One Thousand and One Nights; with Professor Shinasi Tekin we published The Imperial Self Portrait, a book of historic photographs of the Ottoman Empire. For years photographer Elizabeth Carella provided negatives and prints for NELC publications free...