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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts from January 2011

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Book of the Week: The Illustrations of Erpétologie Générale

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For this week’s book of the week, we feature the beautiful illustrations of André Marie Constant Duméril’s Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles, found within the 1854 Atlas volume. In this nine volume work, 1,393 species of reptiles and amphibians are described, and “their anatomy, physiology and bibliography are specified.

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January 27, 2011byGrace Costantino
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Book of the Week: Animals of the Past

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While much of the focus today has been concentrated on the existing life on planet Earth, and how to protect and preserve it, there is still a great deal of interest, and indeed things to be learned, from that life which has ceased to exist on our planet. With this in mind, we focus this week on the title Animals of the Past (1901) by Frederic A. Lucas.

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January 18, 2011byGrace Costantino
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Book of the Week: BHL Requests

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Last summer, 2010, we implemented a scanning request form by which our user community can request titles to be scanned and added to our ever-growing online collection. The feature was a runaway success, with 787 requests received to date. As we work to fulfill these requests, we thought it might be nice to highlight just a few of the rare item requests we’ve scanned thus far.

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January 14, 2011byGrace Costantino
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Biodiversity Heritage Library & JSTOR Plant Science

Chris Freeland, BHL Technical Director, gave the following presentation at the 4th Annual Global Plants Initiative Meeting in Panama, covering the progress of BHL to date and the way these two resources are integrated for the benefit of the world’s plant scientists.

Biodiversity Heritage Library & JSTOR Plant Science from Chris Freeland
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Book of the Week: So You Saw Jaws and You Think You Know Sharks?

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You would be hard-pressed to find someone today who has not seen the legendary Jaws movie. The movie defined a generation and solidified sharks as one of the most gruesome and dangerous killers on the planet. But such misconceptions are an injustice to this diverse, and often harmless, order of fish, some of which reach a mature length shorter than that of an average housecat.

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January 6, 2011byMichelle Strizever

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