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Peter G. Williamson, assistant professor of Geology, initiated the special measures when he "opened up the cabinets and realized they were asbestos and that they were potentially dangerous," according to one MCZ source...
...source, MCZ researcher Norman Gilinsky, said that "people are painfully aware that it [asbestos] is around" the museum...
...Stephen Kosslyn $79,000 9/15/79-9/14/81 Arts and Sciences Photo and Impurity Effects in the Crystallization of Amorphous Systems and Formation and Properties of Amosphous Metallic Alloys David Turnbull $336,897 10/1/76-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences Biological Studies on Marine Boring and Fouling Mollusks R. D. Turner $218,210 10/1/75-12/30/81 MCZ A Componential Approach to Locating and Correcting Reading Disabilities of Young Adults Phyllis Weaver, Ann Kera $191,703 7/1/79-6/30/82 Arts and Sciences Life-History Studies on Fouling Bryozoans and Ascidians Robert Woollacott $198,410 10/1/77-9/30/81 MCZ Model Investigations of Lithosperic Propagation Tai Tsun Wu $135,750 4/1/79-10/31/81 Division of Applied...
Attention was again focused on the MCZ when the Boston Globe reported on Sunday that the University's losses exceeded $500.000 and that the losses may have resulted from a highly organized theft plot. The story was subsequently aired by several area radio and television news services...
Harvard has never released an official estimate as to the extent of the MCZ losses -- which included original works by John J. and John W. Audubon. Louis Agassiz, and George Buffon--but the Globe reported that an appraisal commissioned by the paper had set the figure at more than $500.000. The study was conducted from lists of books the University had reported missing...