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...Oxford St. residence lacks humidity control and centralized air conditioning—which bodes poorly for delicate specimens??and its flimsy upper floors are in danger of collapsing from too much weight, Hanken said. Leaks in the roof need to be mended, and the building supports very limited information technology infrastructure...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...Marotta has also made what he refers to as “canned specimens??—leaves, pinecones, and other ephemera from the site sealed in the sort of jars one might expect to hold jam. He plans to do a series of large-scale drawings of the containers in which they take on what he calls “alien” proportions...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: VES 113: Altered Landscapes | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Along with harboring a large number of benchmark specimens??those by which whole species are defined—Harvard’s collections are some of the world’s biggest and most important...

Author: By Ben A. Black, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Museum Becomes Modern | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

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