Shaking the Dust off Agassiz's Museum

摘要

As its director, Jim Hanken has gone to bat for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, scoring space for its collections and more say in organismal biology. WEST TOWN, MASSACHUSETTS—Searching out salamanders is a bit like divining for water, andJim Hanken and his students know just where to look. Within 30 minutes of peeking under rocks and pulling apart decaying logs at a state forest 70 kilometers outside Boston, the Harvard-based crew has found every common species of salamander in the area.