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RSS FeedsThe Rockefeller Beetles exhibit opens at Harvard Museum of Natural History
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21 october 2018 05:44:22

 
The Rockefeller Beetles exhibit opens at Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Over the span of 90 years, banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller collected beetles from around the world, eventually building a personal collection of more than 150,000 specimens. In 2017, his longstanding support for the entomology department of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology culminated in a gift to the museum of this extraordinary collection. The Harvard Museum of Natural History celebrates this monumental gift with The Rockefeller Beetles—a new exhibit that features hundreds of specimens from this exceptional collection and that recounts the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion. “The collection is superb, worldwide, and the biggest collection ever donated to Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology as far as we know,” said the MCZ’s


 
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