A history of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, featuring 95 color photographs of some of its finest and oddest specimens, from tapeworms and taxidermied birds to mastodon skeletons. With chapters on historic holdings, fossil finds, emblems of biodiversity, extinct species, scientific discoveries and miscellany. You can see George Washington's golden peasants, a Hawaiian bird collected by Captain Cook and a Lewis & Clark woodpecker.  (NAT81, $22.95)