March 11, 2005
Place of Science and Romance

Morpho species, no date (Photograph by Mark Sloan)
For anyone drawn to nature's infinite book, Harvard's natural-history collections make excellent reading. The collections comprise some 21 million specimens -- animal, vegetable, and mineral -- from every imaginable part of the earth. Scientists devote lifetimes to their study,
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