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  • The Ernst Mayr Library is currently open from 9 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday; Saturdays 10-1 except holiday weekends
  • New e-book now available: Recent Trends in Radiation Chemistry by Wishart and Rao. Find it in HOLLIS.
  • New e-resource now available: NSPIE Biomedical Optics and Medical Imaging - http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:SPIEBOI.
  • New Books in the Ernst Mayr Library:

    Below is a list of new books at the Ernst Mayr Library that may be of interest to MCB faculty, staff and students. This is only a sample; the complete list is on the library website. As always, if you have suggestions for books or other resources, please let me know!

  • Maternal control of development in vertebrates: my mother made me do it! By Florence L. Marlow. [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences, c2010.  QL963.5.M37 2010

    The selective cost of misfolded proteins and a concomitant evolutionary adaptation. By Kerry Geiler-Samerotte. Thesis (Ph. D. – Dept. of O.E.B.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2011. QH390.G44 2011

  • Escape from the ivory tower : a guide to making your science matter.
    By Nancy Baron ; with contributions by Liz Neeley and the COMPASS team. Washington : Island Press, c2010. Q223.B37 2010
     
    b Chromosomes.
    By R.N. Jones and H. Rees. London ; New York : Academic Press, 1982. QH600.J66 1982
  • Chromatin and chromosome structure.
    Edited by Hsueh Jei Li and Ronald A. Eckhardt. New York : Academic Press, 1977. QH600.C48 1977

    Chromosome hierarchy : an introduction to the biology of the chromosome.
    By Bernard John and Kenneth R. Lewis. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1975. QH600.J63 1975

    Human chromosome methodology.
    Edited by Jorge J. Yunis. 2d ed. New York, Academic Press, 1974. QH431.Y8 1974
  • Reasons to come to the Ernst Mayr Library: there’s coffee, tea and hot chocolate; a candy jar; lots of cool new books; you can relax in a comfy chair and study, read or doze in peace; chocolate; there are paper copies of some new MCB journals and most of the older journal issues; we’re friendly and will give you personal attention; you can browse the stacks and find many treasures; there are quiet places to work; it’s a very special place, with a fireplace, original Audubons on the walls, etc.; and chocolate.

Contact the Ernst Mayr Library: 617-495-2475

or Dorothy Barr, MCB Librarian, 617-495-1348 or .

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Dorothy Barr, MCB Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library.
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Voice: 617-495-1348; Reference Desk: 617-495-2475; Fax: 617-496-6838
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