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2020 BHL Annual Meeting — Global and Virtual
Like many organizations around the world, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was compelled to move the 2020 BHL Annual Meeting to a virtual environment. In consultation with our prospective 2020 hosts,...
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George Washington Carver: Strengthening Society with Conservation Through...
Widely known as the “Peanut Man”, George Washington Carver is a famous historical figure in the world of agriculture. His work with peanuts is the first thing many learn about him in grade school, and...
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BHL Australia Turns 10!
Ten years ago in June 2010, the Atlas of Living Australia and Museums Victoria signed an agreement with the Biodiversity Heritage Library – and BHL Australia was born. BHL Australia’s mission is to...
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Tasting Platypus Milk: Linking Specimens and Stories
Zoological knowledge typically comes from one of two primary sources: the living and the dead — observations of animals going about their business in their habitats; and the study of preserved...
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Looking Back to Move Forward: How Insights From Historic Literature Can...
That we live in a changing world should come as no surprise, yet how we measure that change can greatly impact our ability to respond to it. I am a scientist who works in the field of historical...
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Landscape Democracy: The Life and Career of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)
Considered the father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted co-designed many of the most well-known urban parks and landscapes in the United States in partnership with Calvert Vaux...
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BHL Improves the Speed and Accuracy of its Taxonomic Name Finding Services...
BHL has deployed a new taxonomic name finding tool to improve the speed and accuracy of identifying names throughout its 58+ million pages. BHL is now usingGlobal Names Architecture’s (GNA) gnfinder...
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Beyond Walden: What Henry David Thoreau Teaches Us About Nature and Connection
Thoreau the writer. Thoreau the philosopher. Thoreau the naturalist. Thoreau the citizen. The myriad of Henry David Thoreau’s titles demonstrates the fusion of interests that propelled his path...
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Museum Studies…At Home: BHL Empowers Distance Learning for Students at NYU
On 9 March 2020, New York University announced that it was taking classes remote, and less than two weeks later the entire campus, including our beloved Bobst Library, shut down. While I was relieved...
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Sustainable Forestry Science: Wilhelm Philip Daniel Schlich
German-born forester Wilhelm Schlich (1840-1925) helped establish forestry as a scientific discipline in Great Britain. He emphasized sustainable forestry practices and the importance of preserving the...
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The Conservationism of a Nature Educator: Anna Botsford Comstock
Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930) held a significant role as a proponent of nature education at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, at the turn of the 20th century. Comstock was born in New York...
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A Forest of Knowledge: Richard Evans Schultes and the Rise of Ethnobotany
The conservation movement today encompasses more than the physical management of habitat to preserve plants and animals. Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001) epitomized the modern conservationist by...
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Decoding Palms: Deciphering Plant Mysteries One Publication at a Time
Given their strong association with the area, you might be surprised to learn that there is only one species of palm native to the entire state of California — the California fan palm (Washingtonia...
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BHL Quarterly Newsletter (August 2020) Now Available!
In our latest newsletter, we share some of the ways we have been working to improve the Library over the past few months, such as deploying a new taxonomic name finding tool and making our records...
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George Perkins Marsh: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by...
George Perkins Marsh was a talented linguist, scholar, and diplomat. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's 3rd district from 1843-1849, and, in 1850, went on to...
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Meadowfoam and Cluster-Lilies: Empowering Research on Rare Plants Through...
Little Lake Valley, located in northern California’s Eel River watershed, is home to several thousand acres of wet meadows and riparian woodlands that are habitat for diverse plants and wildlife,...
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Towards Online Decoloniality: Globality and Locality in and Through the BHL
Lidia Ponce de la Vega is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies at McGill University. As part of her dissertation, she is analyzing the BHL collection from the perspective of Latin America to...
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Two Hand-Painted Volumes of Coleoptera Illustrated by Francis du Boulay
Earlier this year Dr. Simon Leslie, Francis Houssemayne du Boulay’s great-grandson, contacted Melbourne Museum about accessing du Boulay’s hand-painted Coleoptera volumes, held in the Museums Victoria...
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Celebrating the Career of Susan Fraser, Recently-Retired Thomas J. Hubbard...
We are honored to celebrate the career of Susan Fraser, who last month retired as the Thomas J. Hubbard Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden...
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Alexander von Humboldt and the Interconnectedness of Nature: Exploring...
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a man who believed all of nature was interconnected, and that by affecting one aspect of nature, other parts of nature would be affected, too—for good or ill....
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