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The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya
By Virginia Mills Project Officer, the Joseph Hooker Correspondence ProjectThe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Joseph Hooker, born 200 years ago this year, may have been the greatest botanist of the...
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BHL Welcomes Three New Affiliates
BHL is pleased to welcome three long-time Partners as the consortium’s newest Affiliates: BHL Egypt, BHL China, and BHL SciELO.The BHL consortium now consists of 18 Members and 18 Affiliates. Members...
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Using the materials at hand: Richard Archbold and the 2nd Archbold Expedition...
By Kendra Meyer Field Book Project Archivist, American Museum of Natural HistoryThe American Museum of Natural History selected two unique sets of material to digitize for the CLIR BHL Field Notes...
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Unearthing Precambrian Protistan Taxonomy with BHL
Amoebozoans are believed to have existed for hundreds of millions of years. These ancient protists are characterized by the presence of pseudopodia, cytoplasm-filled projections that are used for...
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Take Our Survey and Share Your Feedback About BHL!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) needs your feedback!Take our survey and tell us what improvements and new features you'd like to see in BHL.We will be updating the BHL website to improve and...
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NDSR Residents Mid-Year Update
We officially passed the halfway point in our residencies in June and have begun to work on compiling our research into a final report. We are excited to bring you some project updates and report on...
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2016 BHL Annual Report
The 2016 BHL Annual Report is now available!Find out how our collections grew and audiences engaged with our library in 2016, learn more about some exciting new projects, and explore impact stories...
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CBHL 2017: Expanding Access visits the Twin Cities
The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries met for its annual conference in Chaska, Minnesota this year. The conference, which took place June 5th through June 9th, was attended by three...
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BHL activities at the 2017 American Libraries Association Annual Conference
BHL Program Director, Martin R. Kalfatovic, attended the 2017 American Libraries Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL during the week of 22-26 June 2017. In this post, he provides an update on...
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Cats & Dogs: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Perspectives
This blog post incorporates research conducted for the digital exhibition, "Wild Mouser to Household Pet: A History of Cats in Science and Society, 1858 to 1922." Click here to check out the exhibition...
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Cats & Women: Why the Connection?
This blog post incorporates research conducted for an upcoming digital exhibition called "Wild Mouser to Household Pet: A History of Cats in Science and Society, 1858 to 1922." Click here to check out...
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A Report from the MBLWHOI Library: BHL Supports the Research of Recent...
The MBLWHOI Library is a founding BHL institution. This post is a brief look at how two of the Library's most recent Catherine N. Norton Fellows have used books from BHL's collection to support their...
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In-copyright Titles from the 2nd quarter of 2017
From April to June of this year, BHL received permission for 36 new in-copyright titles, keeping pace with the 39 added in the first quarter. The Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project,...
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Deconstructing Ecological Mirages with Help from Historic Literature
Within South America’s coastal ecosystems, vast expanses of subtropical and temperate salt marshes are dominated by an iconic species, the smooth salt marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora. This...
View ArticleUpdate re: Internet Archive Outage 8/4/2017.
UPDATE: Internet Archive is back online. Page images are now correctly displaying in BHL. If you experience continued issues, please submit feedback.Thank you for your...
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Report on the XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China, July 2017
XIX IBC 2017By Martin R. KalfatovicBHL Program DirectorAlong with BHL Program Manager Carolyn Sheffield, I represented BHL as a delegate to the XIX International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China....
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Ex. Ex. Marks the Spot: bringing together primary and secondary sources on...
Written by Adriana MarroquinProject Manager, BHL Field Notes Project and Smithsonian Field Book ProjectThe United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 was authorized by Congress in 1836...
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The Delaware Museum of Natural History
Image adapted from a photo by Jim, the Photographer. Original on Flickr.(CC BY 2.0)HistoryFor over 40 years, the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) has promoted the study of nature, investigated...
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The Final Contribution of Sir William Jardine, Scottish Ornithologist
Jardine’s parrot or red-fronted parrot (Poicephalus gulielmi). Drawn from a specimen brought back from the Congo by Jardine’s son William, for whom it was named. Jardine, William. Contributions to...
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Artist Kumataro Ito Aboard the USS Albatross
This post was originally published on The Field Book Project blog on 30 June 2017.Bartsch, Paul. Notes and description of specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross,...
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