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A “Botanist’s Botanist” : The Field Books of Timothy Plowman
The Field Museum Library has recently digitized and added to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Timothy Plowman’s entire field book collection, which spans his career from 1969, when he worked for the...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds the National Agricultural Library as a New...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to welcome the National Agricultural Library (NAL) as a new Member. Since joining the consortium as an Affiliate in 2014, NAL has contributed over 2 million...
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Heterostyly Before Darwin: Tracing Early Observations of Primula Floral Morphs
Primula vulgaris plants growing in woodland habitat. Photo by P.M. Gilmartin.In 1860, Charles Darwin had an epiphany.This was not an epiphany on the origin of species, as his monumental publication on...
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NDSR Residents Update
BHL NDSR Mentors and Residents at the Missouri Botanic Garden [Photo by Martin Kalfatovic]Hello again from the NDSR Residents! Since our last update in July we’ve been focusing on transforming our...
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Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference 2017
Last week the Association of Zoos and Aquariums held its annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. The conference draws around 2,800 attendees from a diverse group of institutions and organizations...
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Australia's First Flora
Smith, James Edward. A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. 1793-95. Engraving by James Sowerby. Digitized by Harvard University Botany Libraries. http://s.si.edu/2wUwwYX.As far back as antiquity,...
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BHL Welcomes Oak Spring Garden Foundation as a New Affiliate
This quarter, the Biodiversity Heritage Library welcomed the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF) as a new Affiliate. The BHL consortium now consists of 19 Members and 18 Affiliates.With a mission to...
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BHL Moves to HTTPS
HTTPS? What does it mean? HTTP is the language that your browser uses to communicate to BHL and the S stands for Secure, encrypted, unreadable, or at least much, much harder to read.The web is moving...
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Charles Schuchert: “[He] mapped the ancient seas and fathomed the geologic past”
The Yale Peabody Museum of History has partnered with the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project to digitize a selection of primary natural history field research. Over the last year, the...
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Re-Examining the Jurassic Mammal Fossils of the UK
Elsa Panciroli, Palaeontology PhD candidate, at work on the Isle of Skye. Photo credit: Elsa Panciroli.Mesozoic mammal palaeontology is in the middle of a revolution. Since the first mammals and their...
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Lloyd Library and Museum
"Paraphernalia," photo by Cindi (Flickr, Creative Commons)Over the course of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) project, contributing organizations have shipped material to Internet...
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From Jean-Baptiste Tavernier to the Smithsonian: Tracing the History of the...
The Hope Diamond. Photo by Chip Clark, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. Photo ID 97-35270.The Hope Diamond is one of the most famous gems in the world. It attracts millions of visitors to the...
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In-copyright titles added in the 3rd quarter of 2017
From July to September of this year, BHL received permission for 43 new in-copyright titles, all as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. This is a slight increase over the...
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The Birds of the World, German Edition
Bechstein, Johann Matthäus. Johann Lathams allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel. Bd.2:t.2 (1795). German translation of John Latham's A General Synopsis of Birds. Digitized by Natural History Museum...
View ArticleService Update: Internet Archive Service Restored 29 October 2017
Status Update: 20:45 ET 29 October: Internet Archive is back online. Page images are correctly displaying in BHL. Thanks for your patience! -----------------------------------------Internet Archive is...
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Join us for Seeds in the Stacks!
Join us for Seeds in the Stacks, a Facebook Live tour at the USDA National Agricultural Library! We'll go behind-the-scenes to explore selections from the Library's collection of over 200,000 seed and...
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24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing...
The 24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board and associated events were held in Helsinki, Finland, 24-29 September. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)...
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Exporing Finnish biodiversity during GBIF 24
Biodiversity ExcursionsBHL Chair Constance Rinaldo and BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic each took advantage of the opportunities provided by our Finnish hosts of GBIF 24 for excursions to explore...
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Announcing Five Webinars from BHL’s NDSR Residents!
We are pleased to announce five upcoming webinars from BHL’s NDSR residents! Each resident has spent the past 10 months or so working hard on individual—yet inter-related—research projects to explore...
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"Access to the original record...wherever we now work": Highlights from the...
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California Berkeley is a collaborative partner in the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project. The MVZ has committed to digitizing...
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