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The Final Contribution of Sir William Jardine, Scottish Ornithologist

As was the case for many of his contemporaries, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth, was a man of many talents.

August 24, 2017byKelsey Manahan

Blog Reel, Featured Books

The Delaware Museum of Natural History

For over 40 years, the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) has promoted the study of nature, investigated the planet’s flora and fauna, and educated the public with its world-class collections, which are particularly rich in mollusks and birds (DMNH’s collection of bird eggs is the second-largest in North America). Founded in 1957, the museum began as an idea in the mind of John duPont, heir to the DuPont Chemical fortune.

August 17, 2017byPatrick Randall

Blog Reel, Featured Books

Ex. Ex. Marks the Spot: bringing together primary and secondary sources on the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842

The United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 was authorized by Congress in 1836 to observe the Pacific Ocean and South Seas. The four-year voyage — also referred to as the Wilkes Expedition or Ex. Ex. for shorthand — covered an expansive geographic region, including the Pacific Northwest, Fiji Islands, and South America. The expedition was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the Unites States Navy, and the resulting collection is thought to be one of the largest early natural history collections, weighing in at an estimated 40 tons. The collection was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1857 and established what would eventually become the National Museum of Natural History.

August 10, 2017byAdriana Marroquin

BHL News, Blog Reel

Report on the XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China, July 2017

Along with BHL Program Manager Carolyn Sheffield, I represented BHL as a delegate to the XIX International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China. Held during the week of 24-28 July 2017, the Congress (which is held every five years) drew over 6,000 botanists from around the world. The Congress provided an excellent opportunity to catch up with colleagues from around the world and learn about some of the latest botanical research.

August 9, 2017byMartin R. Kalfatovic

Blog Reel

Update re: Internet Archive Outage 8/4/2017.

UPDATE: Internet Archive is back online. Page images are now correctly displaying in BHL. If you experience continued issues, please submit feedback.Thank you for your patience!—————————————————————Internet Archive is experiencing an outage on 4 August 2017. As a result, page images are not displaying in BHL. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will update this post and social media as the status changes. Thank you for your patience and #StayTuned.

August 4, 2017byMichelle Strizever

Blog Reel, User Stories

Deconstructing Ecological Mirages with Help from Historic Literature

Within South America’s coastal ecosystems, vast expanses of subtropical and temperate salt marshes are dominated by an iconic species, the smooth salt marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora. This species is an important ecological engineer, providing habitats for a wide range of species and shaping the environmental evolution of many coastal ecosystems worldwide. S. alterniflora is considered native to a wide latitude of the Atlantic coastline from Canada to Argentina, and the Patagonian salt marshes that it dominates are deemed pristine native ecosystems. However, according to Dr.

August 3, 2017byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

From April to June of this year, BHL received permission for 36 new in-copyright titles, keeping pace with the 39 added in the first quarter. The Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, BHL staff, and new members and affiliates all contributed to securing permission and are now working to scan and upload. To put that 36 number in perspective, there are about 650 in-copyright titles in BHL, out of 125,000 total–that’s just a half percent, but it’s growing!

August 1, 2017byPatrick Randall

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About BHL

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C., BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”

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The Final Contribution of Sir William Jardine, Scottish Ornithologist

The Delaware Museum of Natural History

Ex. Ex. Marks the Spot: bringing together primary and secondary sources on the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842

Report on the XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China, July 2017

Update re: Internet Archive Outage 8/4/2017.

Deconstructing Ecological Mirages with Help from Historic Literature

In-copyright Titles from the 2nd quarter of 2017

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