Ernest Rutherford Collection
Heritage
The Rutherford Museum contains the apparatus used by Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford when he was Professor of Experimental Physics at McGill from 1898-1907. It was at McGill that Rutherford collaborated with Frederick Soddy, also a Nobel winner, to write “The cause and nature of radioactivity,” published in 1902.
Anatomy Museum Collection
Heritage
The Anatomy Museum Collections originated in 1822 with the founding of the Montreal Medical Institute, the precursor to the McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. Specimens for teaching and research came from autopsies performed at the Institute and the Montreal General Hospital; classes in anatomy were given as early as 1824. Dr. Francis J. Shepherd, professor of Anatomy from 1875-1913, recalled seeing bone specimens that had been collected in 1868. Shepherd himself collected specimens for 32 years, and there is evidence that some of them still remain.
Marvin Duchow Music Library Collections
Heritage
The Marvin Duchow Music Library was named after the former Dean of the Faculty of Music who was a well-known musicologist and composer. The library holds a wealth of collections on every aspect of music composition and recording, from early music to electronic. Most of the collections can be searched through databases accessible at the web site:
Government Information Service Collections
Heritage
The historical strength of the Government Documents collection is considerable. Established in 1962, the collection is multi-disciplinary, and supports a wide variety of research and teaching programs with monographs, serials, microforms and access to electronic databases. The Department is a depository library for the Canadian government, the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, and the European Union.
Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory
Heritage
The Lyman Entomological Museum was founded in 1914 with a bequest from the noted lepidopterist Henry Herbert Lyman (1854-1914). Lyman’s collection of 20,000 butterflies and moths formed the nucleus of the Museum collection, which was augmented over the years by substantial collections of other insects contributed by curators such as Albert Winn, George Moore, Keith Kevan and Vic Vickery.