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BHL Facilitates Research on Alfred Russel Wallace's Legacy
Alfred Russel Wallace in 1869. Copyright George Beccaloni.In 1854, Alfred Russel Wallace began an eight year collecting trip to Southeast Asia, through the region he called the Malay Archipelago (now...
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John Forbes Royle: Materia Medica and Economic Botany
As part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, an interesting title was added to BHL from Yale University’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library and the online Medical...
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TDWG 2017 Annual Conference: Data Integration in a Big Data Universe:...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an institutional member of TDWG. TDWG was formed to:establish international collaboration among biological database projects. TDWG promoted the wider and more...
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Series Two: BHL NDSR Webinars
Earlier this month, three of our BHL NDSR residents delivered webinars reporting on the results of their research and recommendations on how we might best improve the features and functionality of BHL...
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Flore d'Amérique: Illustrating America’s Tropical Flora
Denisse, Etienne. Flore d'Amérique. 1843-46. Digitized by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. http://s.si.edu/2Ac5T4m.In the 1840s, Europe was enraptured by the beauty of...
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The Art of Herpetology: Schlegel's Reptiles and Amphibians
Schlegel, H. (Hermann). Abbildungen neuer oder unvollständig bekannter Amphibien. 1837-1844. Atlas digitized by Smithsonian Libraries. http://s.si.edu/2AYBgPF.German ornithologist and herpetologist...
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From Dayton to Cambridge and Back Again: the field notes of August F. Foerste
Field notes are well known to be essential, primary material that provide details about collections and expeditions that aren’t found in published material or specimen labels. Field notes can also...
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Magnificent Crustacea: Leach and Sowerby's Malacostraca Podophthalmata...
William Elford Leach. Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae. Title page. Naturalis, RBR Holt 00626. http://s.si.edu/2iVddtH.Without a doubt, Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae (1815-1875) is one...
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation Contributes Annual and Investigative Reports to BHL
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has spent the past fifty years working on a complex ecological problem. The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in Maryland, Delaware, D.C. and Virginia. While about half of its...
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Digitized Field Notes Yield Rapid Reference Response!
The Harvard Botany Libraries have been fortunate to benefit from several field notes digitization projects in recent years. Materials have been selected based on condition, demand, and/or the theme of...
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Examining the History of Paleoanthropology Using BHL
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the scientific community was engrossed in discussions about evolution and the origin of species. The publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859...
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Capstone event for BHL NDSR program
On January 4, 2018, in the midst of a memorable storm in the Northeastern US, approximately 30 intrepid travelers met to celebrate the successful completion of the BHL National Digital Stewardship...
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New Medical Botany Titles in BHL Thanks to The New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Medicine Library has contributed nine digitized titles (11 volumes) on medical botany to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity...
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BHL Australia - Now a Truly National Project
BHL Australia started 2017 with a dream – to digitize biodiversity literature from EVERY state and territory in Australia (for those readers not in Australia, we have six states and two...
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"If it Lives, We Want It." Exploring the Acclimatisation Society of...
The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria played a fascinating, yet devastating, role in Australia’s ecological history. Founded in 1861 and existing as an independent entity until 1872, the Society...
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44 New In-Copyright Titles Coming to BHL!
During the final quarter of 2017 (October to December), BHL received permission for 44 new in-copyright titles, many as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. BHL licenses...
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UPDATE: The BHL website is back online. Thank you for your patience!------------------------------------- The BHL website is currently unavailable due to technical difficulties. We're working to...
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Teaching with Historic Biodiversity Publications
Can science increase agricultural productivity and support food security?The founders of the Royal Agricultural Society of England believed so. In 1838, a group of individuals with varied agricultural...
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Dr. Arthur Cronquist and his Botanical Field Notes
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden is one of many partners on the Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project which was generously funded by the Council of Library and...
View ArticleBHL Internship Opportunity: Digital Content Internship
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is looking for a Digital Content Intern for Summer 2018.Hosted through the Smithsonian Libraries, this is an unpaid, virtual internship. Interns will work remotely and...
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