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Nicolas-Edme Roret: Insects and Natural History Manuals
Atlas des insectes, composé de 110 planches, représentant la plupart des insectes décrits dans le Manuel d'histoire naturelle et dans le Manuel d'entomologie. Digitized by Library of Congress....
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BHL Receives Funding to Host National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR)...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), led by the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ), will host a National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) cohort...
View ArticleInformation about Upcoming Changes to BHL Commenting Feature
Summary A new and enhanced commenting system is being planned for BHL. The current commenting system will be disabled on July 5.More Information In December 2015, we launched the ability to add...
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Digging into the personal writings of a 19th century ornithologist
Tuesday, June 12, 1866 A.M. pleasant P.M. cloudy. Studied part of P.M. Went to circus in evening & saw a hippopotamus for the first time. Got four warbling vireos before breakfast. The algebra is...
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BHL Adds Three New Affiliates
Over the past three months, BHL has welcomed three new Affiliates: Smithsonian Institution Archives, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and Národní Muzeum (National Museum, Prague). The BHL consortium now...
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BHL Receives Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016 Community/Capacity Award
We are excited to announce that BHL has been named a joint-winner of the inaugural Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016 Community/Capacity Award, along with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting...
View ArticleInformation about Upcoming Changes to BHL API
The BHL API will be updated on 25 July 2016 to support changes to the BHL site. These changes will accommodate identifying additional Contributors for Items and Parts of items.First are changes to the...
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BHL at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
The 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) (http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/) was jointly hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the...
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Unravelling the secrets of Australian native bees
By Dr. Anne DollinCo-founder of the Australian Native Bee Research Centre North Richmond NSW AustraliaAustralia has over 1,600 species of native bees. As a young university student in 1979, I was keen...
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April showers bring...new in-copyright content to BHL!
April, May, and June were busy months for processing license agreements and adding new in-copyright titles: 35 in all, bringing our total to 56 for the first half of 2016! Many licensors outside the...
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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) is a nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers a variety of gardening programs and activities to its members as well as the...
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BHL paper delivered at 8th Shanghai International Library Forum in Shanghai
I had the honor of delivering an invited paper to the 8th Shanghai International Library Forum in Shanghai, China, 8 July 2016. The paper, Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The...
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Celebrating the Birds of South America
By Gretchen Rings Reference & Interlibrary Loan Librarian Gantz Family Collections Center, Science & Education The Field Museum Plate 31: Le Cotinga pacapaca, male. Le Vaillant, François....
View ArticleNational Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Job Postings
We're hiring!The vacancies for the five National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) cohort positions have been posted through Harvard University. These five residents will work on projects related to...
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Renard's Book of Fantastical Fish
Renard, Louis. Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes. 1754. Digitized by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50095135.You may not...
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Supporting Historical Paleontological Research
World's first large mounted Camptosaurus skeleton at the National Museum of Natural History. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 41 (1912). Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries....
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The Raptor Research Foundation
This year, the Raptor Research Foundation (RRF) celebrates its 50th year of promoting scientific understanding of birds of prey. Last month, the RRF gave BHL permission to add its newsletter and the...
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A Visual Delight: Natural History Illustrations from BHL on Instagram
BHL is now on Instagram!Embracing the visually-driven nature of Instagram, our feed focuses on sharing the stunning historic illustrations in BHL's collection. From birds of paradise to boxing...
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How's your fern and bird coverage, BHL?
By Becca GreensteinSmithsonian Libraries Professional Development Intern“Every one knows what a bird is,” asserts an early 20th century book that I found while browsing the Biodiversity Heritage...
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The National Park Service, Historic Surveys, and the Hunt for Documentation
By Lesley ParillaCataloging CoordinatorThe Field Book Project“The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” by Thomas Moran, artist for Hayden Survey 1871. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D....
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