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The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in
1859, through the efforts of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Agassiz, a
zoologist from Neuchatel, Switzerland, served as the Director of the
Museum from 1859 until his death in 1873. A brilliant lecturer and
scholar, he established the Museum and its collections as a center
for research and education. Agassiz strove to illuminate the variety and comparative relationships of animal life. The Museum's twelve departments - Biological Oceanography, Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Marine Biology, Mollusks, Ornithology, Population Genetics, and Vertebrate Paleontology - continue with Agassiz' vision and also lead modern zoological research. The Ernst Mayr Library and its archives join in supporting the work of the Museum. |
| MCZ in the News |
 James McCarthy, co-chair of a United Nations IPCC working group, among delegation honored at laureate Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
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 Santiago Ramírez, Charles Marshall and Naomi Pierce have identified the ancient fossilized remains of a pollen-bearing bee as the first hint of orchids in the fossil record. >>Harvard Gazette Story |
 Gonzalo Giribet hunts tiny daddy longlegs to explain continental shifts. >>New York Times story
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