Harvard honored Agassiz even after Darwin discredited his polygenism.

Evidence

In 1859, when Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published and provided a stunning rebuke to polygenism, Harvard continued to celebrate Agassiz while he derided Darwin’s impeccably researched work as a “scientific mistake” that was “mischievous in its tendency.” … Indeed, the very next year Harvard dedicated the Museum of Comparative Zoology to Agassiz. The museum was founded with specimens from Agassiz’s personal collection and funded through his extensive connections. It was unofficially called “Agassiz Museum,” a name that retained its relevance when Agassiz’s son, Alexander, was made curator and then director after his father’s death. … Agassiz retained his professorship and served as director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology until his death in 1873. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1083

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• XREF: Underpins the abstract reparations argument: institutional continuity of the very man whose research photographed Papa Renty.