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The Art of Science at Museum Victoria & in BHL!
This post originally published on the Museum Victoria blog to welcome the "Art of Science" exhibit to the museum and introduce audiences to BHL. Explore the latest BHL Australia developments in this...
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The Field Book Project: Increasing Access to Researchers' Fieldbooks
American Archives Month celebrates the importance of archives and the work of archivists as they seek to collect, organize, and make accessible unique materials from our nation’s history. The...
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National Agricultural Library (NAL) Joins BHL!
We are pleased to announce that the USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL) has joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as a BHL Affiliate. BHL has already ingested over 845,000 pages of...
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BHL Adds the National Library Board, Singapore as a New Member
Oriental Scops Owl, a species found in South Asia, including Singapore. A History of the Birds of Ceylon. v. 1. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37019175BHL is pleased to welcome the National...
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Monsters Are Real…
They just look a little different in the light of day. “HIC SUNT DRACONES.”This phrase translates from the Latin as “here are dragons.” It is etched on the eastern coast of Asia on one of the oldest...
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A Whale of a Tale...The Leviathan
The Devil Whale In the 6th century AD, St. Brendan, an Irish cleric, and eighteen other monks, sailed out from Ireland to cross the ocean. Amidst their journey, they came upon a black, treeless island...
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The Quest for the Sea Serpent: An Oarfish or Something More?
"Soe Orm." Magnus, Olaus. Historia de Gentibus Septentionalibus. 1555. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41862944.In the 16th century, the ocean was a terrifying place. Creatures of unimaginable size...
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Release the Kraken!
“Architeuthis, the giant squid, is the quintessential sea monster, probably responsible for more myths, fables, fantasies, and fictions than all other marine monsters combined…[It] surely is the most...
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The Octopus…The Monster that Isn’t
“…A very formidable animal, and possess[ing] such a degree of strength as to make it dangerous to attack it without great precaution. Such is the ferocity and violence with which it defends itself,...
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The Beautiful Monster: Mermaids
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed out from Spain with a mission to find a western trade route to Asia. Instead, he found a whole “New World”…and something altogether more mysterious.On January 9,...
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Crowdsourcing and BHL: Current Projects that Allow Users to Help Us Improve...
Recent crowdsourcing initiatives are revolutionizing scientific research, allowing the public to help scientists and researchers document, identify, and better understand biodiversity.For example, the...
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Rejuvenating Centuries' Old Botany with Phytogeography
Here's a word of the day for you: Phytogeography.Phytogeography is a branch of biogeography that investigates the geographic distribution of plants and the effect that the earth's surface has on that...
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Digital Object Identifiers and BHL
The importance and need for unique, persistent identifiers for reliable access to published literature has become widely accepted, and the literature for the biodiversity informatics community is no...
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Lepidochromy: Butterfly Transfer Prints
This post was originally published on the Smithsonian Libraries' blog. It was written by Daria Wingreen-Mason, Special Collections Technical Information Specialist in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library...
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The Latest News from BHL
Sharks, Passenger Pigeons, Scientific Illustrations, Crowdsourcing, National Agricultural Library, GBIF, and Semantic Metadata. What do all these things have in common? They're all BHL news stories...
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Of Birds and Poetry: Alexander Wilson and The Foresters
Wilson, Alexander. The Foresters. 1838. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42435615.210 years ago, in an autumn not unlike our own today, Alexander Wilson set out with two companions on a 1,300 mile...
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The Stories Seeds Tell
Since the mid-19th century, seed and nursery catalogs have reflected the agricultural and horticultural landscape of the United States. These catalogs—which began as guides to medicinal herbs, and are...
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New Online Exhibitions! Notable Women and Latinos in Natural History
We are pleased to announce the release of two new BHL online exhibitions: Early Women in Science and Latino Natural History.Earlier this year, the Smithsonian Women's Committee awarded a one-year grant...
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Early Women In Science: Trekking Through Nature, Trailblazing Their Way...
The sixteen women featured in the “Early Women In Science” exhibition are each extraordinary for unique reasons. One trait they all share is that they were doing work in scientific fields reserved for...
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Using the Salamander Brain to Understand Human Behavior
What can a salamander brain tell us about human behavior?A lot more than you might think, discovered Lou Morgan, an independent researcher who has been studying the physiological underpinnings of human...
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