Presents A Collection Of Illustrated Photos And Diagrams Depicting A Vast Array Of Animals, Minerals, And Plants At The Harvard Museum Of Natural History, And Includes Stories Behind A Number Of Specimens. Natural History At Harvard -- Meriwether Lewis's Last Bird & Other Historic Holdings -- Charles Darwin's Buried Treasure & Other Fossil Finds -- Seven-colored Tanagers & Other Emblems Of Biodiversity -- Tasmanian Tigers & Other Extince Species -- Stephen Jay Gould's Fast-changing Snails & Other Scientific Discoveries -- Vladimir Nabokov's Genitalia Cabinet & Other Miscellany. Introduction By Edward O. Wilson ; Text By Nancy Pick ; Photographs By Mark Sloan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 167-171) And Index.