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BHL, Internet Archive, and the eBook
BHL at the IA Leaders Forum, with Brewster Kahle presenting in background.On October 24-25, BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic and BHL Program Manager Grace Costantino attended the Internet Archive...
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Internet Archive scanning: Behind the scenes at the Biodiversity Heritage...
Robert Miller at the Internet ArchiveSan FranciscoThese days with digital cameras built into your phone, most everyone has some first hand experience creating digital images. Creating the nearly 40...
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Election 2012: Presidential Pets
Celebrating White House Biodiversity with a Look at Presidential PetsA look at the Election, BHL-Style: Donkey vs. Elephant!It's Election Day 2012 in the United States and the frenzy of the polls is...
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Introducing the BHL Technical Advisory Group
William Ulate, BHL Technical Director and I are pleased to announce the creation of the BHL Technical Advisory Group (BHL TAG). The BHL TAG will work with William and the Technical Development team at...
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Digitizing Catesby's Magnum Opus
The Catesby Tercentennial CelebrationThe blogosphere is abuzz with tributes and commendations for famed artist Mark Catesby. Why? We are in the midst of celebrating the three hundred year anniversary...
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This Means War! A History of the Bone Wars
Edward Drinker CopeHere at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the story of the so-called Bone Wars is well known.In short, the Academy's Edward Drinker Cope...
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Fall 2012 BHL Newsletter
Want to keep up with all the latest BHL project updates? Then subscribe to our quarterly newsletter! It's full of great information about all the fun things BHL is doing. The Fall 2012 Newsletter...
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Bone Wars: Book of the Week
Building on the previous BHL Blog post by Clare Flemming, on the controversial and vitriol-laced “Bone Wars” between well respected paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, the...
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Global BHL at TDWG 2012
A great participation in Beijing, China.Nǐ hǎo! Last month, I attended the Annual Meeting of the Biodiversity Informatics Standards Organization (www.tdwg.org), one of my favorite meetings of the year...
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Bird Watching & Conservation with Michael Mills
Michael MillsFor many of us, leading bird watching expeditions throughout Africa would be a dream job. For Michael Mills, Angola Country Program Manager for the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African...
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How to Grow a Turkey and Other Fun Facts
Happy Thanksgiving From Your Friends at the BHL!Gobble Gobble GobbleThe days before Thanksgiving are often spent by moms frantically shopping around for a prize turkey at their local supermarkets...
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Spreading the Word: BHL at the Smithsonian Autumn Conservation Festival
Kristen Bullard at SI Autumn Conservation FestivalOur BHL member institutions are extremely invested in the Biodiversity Heritage Library project. As the largest collaborative digital library in the...
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Conservation, Alaska, and John Muir
"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer...I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness." - John MuirHe has been praised as "saving the American soul from total surrender to...
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Lepidoptera Love: Nabokov's Untold Story
“I have hunted butterflies in various climes and disguises: as a pretty boy in knickerbockers and sailor cap; as a lanky cosmopolitan expatriate in flannel bags and beret; as a fat hatless old man in...
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The Perfect Holiday Gift
Preserving Biodiversity Knowledge and Strengthening Conservation Efforts The Extinct Carolina Parakeet. Captured by Mark Catesby.In 1918, the last known surviving Carolina Parakeet, the only parrot...
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Spreading Holiday Cheer
How does BHL celebrate the holidays?As a project, we work to raise awareness about the plight facing the Earth's biodiversity today and provide ways to help preserve scientific knowledge, support...
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Honoring the Man Who Revolutionized Bird Identification
A Celebration of Chester A. Reed on the 100th Anniversary of his Death by Michel ChevalierMichel ChevalierIn the early 1930s, the name of Chester A. Reed was known to all amateur and professional...
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The Wright Brothers, the Piping Plover, and the Seaside Amaranth
Image from National Air and Space Museum Archive, Smithsonian InstitutionToday is the 109th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' historic first flight. That flight, which took place on the barrier...
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It’s The End of the World as We Know It. Do You Feel Fine?
The Great Day of His Wrath (1853), Artist: John MartinIf you are reading this post then the world hasn’t ended…but, you probably already knew it wasn’t going to end.Don’t look so disappointed. Yes, the...
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Is that an Elephant on Your Christmas Tree?
Merry Christmas!We hope you're having a marvelous time celebrating the Holidays today! We wanted to do something fun and different for our Christmas post. So, we decided to present (pun intended!) you...
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