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Empowering Research on Marine Bioinvasions to Support Conservation of Native...
The solitary sea squirt Ascidiella aspersa is native to the Northeastern Atlantic, from the Mediterranean Sea to Norway. Living in shallow sheltered sites and harbors, this species has a fast growth...
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No Egrets: The Story of Fashion and Feathers Through Books
Feathers have been used in fashion throughout history, but the trend became more widespread from the late 18th century when the Industrial Revolution made luxuries more available to the masses. In the...
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Exploring the People and Stories Behind the Names: BHL Empowers Research on...
In 1780, French naturalist François Le Vaillant traveled to the Cape of Good Hope and subsequently spent several years studying the region’s biodiversity. During his three journeys—the first around...
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Birds Brought Back from the Brink
We often think of natural history libraries serving as memorials for lost species, animals like the passenger pigeon and the dodo living on only in books, photos, and illustrations that tell sad...
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BHL at TDWG 2020
This year, as organizations around the world have done in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) held its annual conference virtually. With a mix of online...
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The Case of the Florida Nutmeg: Empowering Research on Endangered Plants
On 5 June 1834, avid amateur botanist Hardy Bryan Croom wrote a letter to botanist John Torrey describing a gymnosperm tree in northern Florida that he was struggling to identify. In this letter, he...
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Frances Sargent Osgood and the Language of Flowers: A 19th Century Literary...
The Language of Flowers genre is at the intersection of botany, horticulture, natural history, art, poetry, and women’s studies. This popular literary trend in the 19th century, presented the world of...
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BHL Quarterly Newsletter (November 2020) Now Available!
Our latest quarterly newsletter is now available! From our BHL symposium at the virtual TDWG 2020 conference to the most recent additions to our Earth Optimism series, don't miss the latest news from...
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You Can Empower Global Biodiversity Research by Supporting BHL This Giving...
As we come to the end of 2020, we reflect on the challenges that have profoundly impacted us as societies and individuals this year, requiring us to rethink how we do our jobs, interact with friends...
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The Untold Story of Virginia and José Correia: Scientific Explorers in Search...
José and Virginia Correia are one of history’s most prolific bird collecting teams. For over three decades, they participated in many scientific exploring expeditions for the American Museum of Natural...
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Bringing Natural History Art to Life: Installation Artist Uses BHL to Create...
Imagine stepping into a world teaming with dazzling biodiversity. Everywhere you turn, colorful birds perch amidst exotic blooms, glimmering butterflies and energetic hummingbirds flit from flower to...
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Teaching Rare Book Cataloguing During a Pandemic
As I am writing this, Melbourne is at the end of its second wave of COVID-19 and I have been separated from the library collections that I work with at Museums Victoria for six months, 25 days, 21...
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The Prickly Meanings of the Pineapple
The pineapple, indigenous to South America and domesticated and harvested there for centuries, was a late comer to Europe. The fruit followed in its cultivation behind the tomato, corn, potato, and...
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Finding Refuge in the Library: How BHL Inspired the Mycological Book Club
On 23 March 2020, the U.K. went into its first national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing and teleworking became the norm, and the walls of our homes became, in many...
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Updates to Bibliography Pages in BHL
We have updated the bibliography pages in BHL to streamline the presentation of information about and metadata export options for content in the Library.
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More than 250,000 Free Nature Images Now Available in the BHL Flickr
Over a quarter of a million nature images are now freely available through the BHL Flickr! Since 2011, we've been making many of the illustrations from BHL's collection available via Flickr. While it...
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Nature Conservation and William Brewster: Insights From a Lifetime of...
The Ernst Mayr Library and Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, holds a unique and extensive collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts and field notes of...
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The Life and Work of Robert Alexander Gilbert: Empowering New Insights...
Robert Alexander Gilbert (1870-1942) was a Black photographer interested in ornithology and chemistry who worked for ornithologist William Brewster from the mid 1890s until Brewster’s death in 1919 and...
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Making the Best of Difficult Times: Accelerating the Transcription of William...
Many of us have searched for silver linings during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021. For many in the library and museum profession, one positive outcome of the mandatory transition to remote work has...
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Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon
Join us on 25 March 2021 (1-3pm ET) for Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon, an online Wikipedia editing workshop hosted in conjunction with the Smithsonian...
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