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Bateman’s Orchidaceae: Exploring One of the Rarest – and Largest – Orchid Books
“The Librarian’s Nightmare.” Such is the name given to a delightful and quirky vignette found within a very rare, and very special, orchid book: James Bateman’s The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala...
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BHL Adds Volumes from Wilson Ornithological Society
More volumes from the Wilson Ornithological Society are now on BHL! Spanning back to 1893, the publications The Wilson Bulletin and The Wilson Journal of Ornithology are a great example of the kind of...
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An Illustrated Natural History of German Frogs: Rösel’s Historia Naturalis...
Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium has been described as one of the most beautiful works devoted to frogs and amphibians. The work of German artist and naturalist Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, Historia...
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Botany 2018: The Future of Digital Projects for Research & Teaching in Botany
BHL Program Director Martin Kalfatovic was invited to participate in a symposium, hosted by JSTOR Global Plants, at Botany 2018 in Rochester, MN entitled The Future of Digital Projects for Research...
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Historic Literature Meets Modern Research: Discovering Octocorals in the Deep...
Íris Sampaio, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries at the University of the Azores & Senckenberg am Meer, Germany, has been studying octocoral taxonomy and ecology for...
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Entertaining Royalty: MBLWHOI Library uses BHL volumes, digital tools, and...
One of the most interesting titles which the MBLWHOI Library has scanned into the Biodiversity Heritage Library is Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince...
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Q: How many BHL’s can you fit into a single meeting?
Back in June I attended the 50th Annual Meeting of The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) which was also host to the 25th anniversary meeting of the European Botanical and...
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My Summer Experience as the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Digital Content...
My first experience with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) occurred during my search for information on a certain gastropod, Tegula patagonica, for a biological research paper on the relationship...
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BHL Statement on the Fire at the National Museum of Brazil
On behalf of the Biodiversity Heritage Library community, the BHL Executive Committee, chaired by Constance Rinaldo (Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) and the BHL...
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Version 3 of the BHL API Now Available
Version 3 of the BHL API has been launched. The development of a new API version was spurred by the recent introduction of full-text search to the BHL web site. In addition to the inclusion of...
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BHL at the 2nd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference
As part of BHL’s mission to ‘improve research methodology by making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community’, the BHL Secretariat and Partners...
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From the La Brea Tar Pits to the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Exploring...
The passenger pigeon’s demise is one of the most infamous examples of human-caused extinction. Once the most abundant bird species in North America, it was hunted relentlessly, with large-scale...
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Announcing the New “About BHL” Site!
We're excited to announce the launch of the new About BHL site! What is BHL's history? Who's involved in the Library? What tools and services does BHL offer? How do you search, download content or...
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My experience as a LEADS Fellow with BHL
As I am wrapping up a short 10-week virtual internship with the Biodiversity Heritage Library, I believe that I will look back on this experience as one of those pivotal opportunities that impact the...
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BHL at the Joint Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...
On 25 August - 1 September 2018, BHL representatives from around the world traveled to Dunedin, New Zealand to attend the joint Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and...
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Tabernaemontanus: Herbalist and Author Known for Botanical Woodcut Illustrations
At first glance one notices the unusual oblong-shaped book at 9” x 7” x 3” in a deep brown leather binding. Peeking inside, there are pages and pages of botanical woodcuts – more than 1,020 – each with...
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What’s This Bird? Classify Old Natural History Drawings with R
This post was originally published on the rOpenSci blog on 28 August 2018 and is republished with permission of the author, Dr. Maëlle Salmon, and rOpenSci. Armed with rOpenSci’s packages binding...
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Women in Enlightenment Science
In 1737, Elizabeth Blackwell published the first weekly installment of a very ambitious project. The final work, entitled A Curious Herbal (1737-39), ultimately consisted of 500 plates of plants...
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An Imaginative World Found in a Shell Book
This post originally appeared on the Smithsonian Libraries blog and has been republished at the permission of the author, Julia Blakely. As a commemoration of the Imperial collection of shells in...
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To Contemplate Without Dread: Nineteenth Century Taxidermy and the Study of...
Natural history illustrations often aim to show life-like flora and fauna. Depictions of birds poised to take flight, fish swimming upstream, and mammals mid-stride are common in 18th and 19th century...
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