In 1905 the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University began planning for a new domesticated animals exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder Louis Agassiz. The resulting displays of variation and heredity in poultry, pigeons, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs proved surprisingly popular to museumgoers. Some of these specimens still exist in the museum's storage facilities, namely a series of poultry donated by the biologist Charles B. Davenport and an elaborate set of guinea pigs from the experimental evolutionist William E. Castle. Situating these domesticated animal displays within academic and popular cultures of poultry fancying, animal breeding, and evolutionary science reveals how a nineteenth-century museum known for its ties to anti-evolutionary principles attempted to modernize its public exhibits.

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比较动物学博物馆展出的驯养动物，1900-1928 年

1905 年，哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆开始计划举办一个新的驯养动物展览，以纪念其创始人路易斯·阿加西 (Louis Agassiz) 诞辰 100 周年。由此产生的家禽、鸽子、兔子、老鼠和豚鼠的变异和遗传展示出人意料地受到博物馆参观者的欢迎。其中一些标本仍然存在于博物馆的储存设施中，即生物学家查尔斯·B·达文波特捐赠的一系列家禽和实验进化论者威廉·E·卡斯尔提供的一组精心制作的豚鼠。将这些驯养动物展示置于家禽观赏、动物育种、