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Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) is the final resting place for some 330,000 preserved birds, the silent inhabitants of a collection dating to 1846. For the collections new curator, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Scott V. Edwards 86, part of the excitement of returning to Harvard is the challenge of breathing new life into this collection, the fifth largest of its type in the world.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/05/4-edwards2-225-2.jpg