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Perfecting the Garden: From the Rise of Agriculture to Genetic Modification
Today, commercial agriculture is a multi-trillion dollar global industry, while the global gardening industry, which has maintained an annual market growth of 3% since 2007, is predicted to be worth...
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Antique Seed Catalogs and Heirloom Gardening
On Heirloom PlantsWhen you think of an “heirloom plant”, you may be imagining a plant that has changed little in over a hundred years—something our great- great-grandparents would have farmed and...
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Leading Ladies in the World of Seeds: Part One
A Garden Stories celebration for Women's History MonthA Feminine Touch in the Gardening IndustryRecent reports indicate that the number of women-owned businesses have increased by 54% in the last...
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Leading Ladies in the World of Seeds: Part Two
A Garden Stories celebration for Women's History MonthSeed Catalogs to Inform Botanical Research Carrie H. Lippincott (featured in our previous post) exploited the potential that seed catalogs offer in...
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Revolutionizing the Garden Industry with Art: Part One
The Seed Industry Blossoms in AmericaSeventeenth and eighteenth-century America had established nurseries—George Fenwick’s in Connecticut in the 1640s, John Bartram’s in Philadelphia (approximately...
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Revolutionizing the Garden Industry with Art: Part Two
J. Horace McFarland. Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee. J. Horace McFarland’s name is little known today. In the early twentieth century, however, he was a prominent figure in American...
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“'Tis A Gift To Be Simple” But to Have a Splendid Garden Buy Shaker Seeds
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community Meetinghouse (photo by Gerda Peterich for the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division; HAB SME,3-SAB,1—1) The United...
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What's Up with Seed Catalogs in BHL?
Cole's Garden Annual. 1892. From the BHL Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection.We've spent a fun-filled week exploring the history, art, and science of gardening with our Garden Stories event. Seed and...
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Citizen Science Uses Art to Unlock Scientific Knowledge
Citizen Science in Science GossipSince the release of Science Gossip a little less than a month ago, 3,600 volunteers have enthusiastically completed 160,000 classifications of natural history...
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2015 Annual Members Meeting at The Field Museum
Attendees at the 2015 BHL Annual Meeting at The Field Museum in Chicago, IL.BHL Members and Affiliates met in Chicago, IL, for the 2015 Annual Meeting (17-18 March 2015). The annual meeting is a chance...
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From Early Women in Science to Ultraviolet Film: Using Art to Understand Insects
Art is an integral part of scientific investigation and documentation. Before the advent of photography, illustrations were used to capture intricate species details, habitat appearance, and even...
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No Flippant Matter: The Re-Invention of the Flipper and Why Ceatacean...
Cetaceans are not closely related to other aquatic vertebrates and represent a unique lineage derived from hoofed land mammals that returned to an aquatic lifestyle about 50 million years ago...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds The Field Museum as a New Member
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) welcomes The Field Museum as a new member. One of the original founding institutions of BHL in 2007, The Field Museum has participated in the Biodiversity...
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BHL Program Director presents at the Catalogue of Life Mini-symposium in...
Peter Schalk, Catalogue of LifeBHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic attended the Catalogue of Life Mini-symposium at the Flanders Marine Institute in Oostende, Belgium on 2 April 2015. Following...
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A New Snail Species Named in Honor of BHL!
A new land snail species from Laos has been named in honor of the Biodiversity Heritage Library!Vargapupa biheli, named in honor of BHL. Image courtesy Dr. Barna Páll-Gergely.Vargapupa biheli, a...
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BHL participates in the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis
Jeroen Snijders, Bob Corrigan, Peter Schalk, Donald Hobern, Tom Orrell, David Remsen, Alex Borisenko, Alex Borisenko, Martin KalfatovicOn 13 April 2015, BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic...
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BHL and The Field Museum rapid inventory team: joining forces for...
In 1855, after an exhausting trip across the Amazon, botanist Richard Spruce reached the Escalera Mountains of northern Peru. "I am among magnificent scenery and an interesting vegetation," he wrote.In...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library at DPLAFest 2015
BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic attended the DPLAFest 2015 in Indianapolis (April 17-18) representing both the BHL content hub and the Smithsonian content hub.DPLAFest drew over 300 people to...
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Latest News from BHL
So you probably know that BHL is a global consortium and that to date we have 23 Members and Affiliates plus 8 global nodes. Explore our Members and Affiliates' contributions to BHL in our latest...
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Got In-Copyright Content?
The Biodiversity Heritage Library’s collection of in-copyright titles continues to grow. Besides including, where possible, the in-copyright publications produced by our consortium library partners, we...
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