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...Zofnass exhibit will be the first to incorporate elements from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum, which jointly employ the Museum of Natural History as their public gallery, according to MCZ Director James Hanken...
Boufford has been at the Harvard Herbaria for over 28 years and continues to work on other flora projects, including some in Japan, Korea and North America. He said that Harvard’s facility has one of the best collections for studying Asian plants in the world...
...closer inspection reveals that his walls are covered with depictions of Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt trees, and next to his metal filing cabinet stands one made out of oak wood. The office, it turns out, also overlooks the trees surrounding the Harvard University Herbaria, home to more than five million plant specimens...
...decade ago, the HMNH was organized to display the collections of Harvard’s three natural history research libraries—the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineral and Geological Museum...
...insignificant: according to various estimates, only about 1.5 million species out of about 23 million are even partially described. These discoveries have important practical applications as well, for they are central to pressing political issues (global climate change) and medical research (e.g., the tree extract documented at the Herbaria, Calophyllum, that may prove effective against AIDS). If Harvard allows its ability to play a role in such important questions about our place on this planet to tarnish, its reputation will surely, and quickly, do the same...