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The First Comprehensive Description of Reptiles and Amphibians
Fig 1: Furcifer verrucosus (Madagascar warty chameleon); Fig 2: Tongue of Chamaeleo senegalensis (Senegal chameleon); Fig 3: dorsal head view of Furcifer bifidus (Two-horned Madagascar chameleon)....
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Mars Invaders: The Wonderful World of Microfungi
In 1897, a monumental work appeared in print for the first time. It was a story of invasion. It was a story of war. It was a story of Martians.The story, of course, was The War of the Worlds, by H.G....
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Instructional Design Internship
Ever since eighth grade, I've known that I wanted to be a librarian. Originally my dilemma was choosing between being a teacher or a librarian, but as my understanding of the profession has grown and...
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Happy Birthday, Louis Agassiz!
Naturalist, educator, and founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born on May 28, 1807, in Môtier, Switzerland, the oldest son of prominent pastor Rodolphe Agassiz...
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World Oceans Day through Books: The Roots of Modern Ichthyology
This post is the first in our week-long celebration leading up to World Oceans Day on June 8. Tune in all week for awesome marine biodiversity fun!In the context of human history, ocean exploration is...
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World Oceans Day through Books: The Truth about Terra Australis
This post is the second in our series leading up to the celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. This series explores publications that represent important milestones in the progress of marine...
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World Oceans Day through Books: Corals, Oceanography, and the Deep Sea
This post is the third in our series leading up to the celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. This series explores publications that represent important milestones in the progress of marine...
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World Oceans Day: A Bibliographic Exploration of Ocean Giants
This post is the fourth in our series leading up to the celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. This series explores publications that represent important milestones in the progress of marine...
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World Oceans Day: Ernst Haeckel and Art Forms in Nature
This post is the fifth in our series leading up to the celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. This series explores publications that represent important milestones in the progress of marine...
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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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A Small Town’s Large Research on the Health of the Seas
This post is the sixth in our series celebrating World Oceans Day on June 8. This series explores publications that represent important milestones in the progress of marine bioscience research and...
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Smorball and Beanstalk Are Live!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is excited to announce the release of two new games by Tiltfactor that will improve access to BHL collections and open a new frontier for crowdsourcing and citizen...
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Anniversary of the first organizational meeting for the BHL
Graham Highley (left, Natural History Museum; and Tom Garnett (right, future BHL Program Director, Smithsonian Libraries)On June 12, 2006, representatives from the first ten partners of the just...
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Herding the Fuzzy Bits: What do you do after Crowdsourcing?
So you've been crowdsourcing and now you've collected lots of fantastic data. What do you do with it?Or maybe you've been thinking about crowdsourcing but you're not sure how you would integrate what...
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BHL members attend the 4th International Conference on African Digital...
Opening ceremony with Ghana Dance EnsembleGlobal Biodiversity Heritage Library members participated in the Fourth International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives at the University of...
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Life is Short but Snakes are Long
"Life is short but snakes are long."While some may recognize this as a quote from author David Quammen, it’s also the name of a place you can go to get some very cool information about snake natural...
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Happy Birthday Waldo Schmitt!
Do you know what carcinology is?It is the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles and crabs. One of the pre-eminent carcinologists (a...
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These Polychaetes Will Make You Feel All Worm and Fuzzy
The National Museum of Natural History is hosting its inaugural celebration of International Polychaete Day (July 1, 2015) in the memory of Krisitan Fauchald, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian...
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BHL Helps Unravel the Mysteries of the Paraguayan Fauna
Lack of access to published information about biodiversity is one of the major inhibitors to efficient scientific research today. It's such a longstanding problem, in fact, that it has a name. The...
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Newest In-Copyright Additions to our Collection
Did you know that there is modern literature in our collection?We have permission with over 165 licensors to provide nearly 400 in-copyright titles for free and open access under a Creative Commons...
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