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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has spent the past fifty years working on a complex ecological problem. The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in Maryland, Delaware, D.C. and Virginia. While about half of its water comes from the Atlantic Ocean, the rest flows to the bay from 64,000 square miles of watershed – spanning 6 states and home to over 18 million people. Pollution from sewage, agriculture, and industry (as well as other impacts of human development) have degraded the bay’s water quality, damaging biodiversity as well as human health, economics, and recreation. Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is a private sector group using many approaches to tackle this regional issue.

As part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, an interesting title was added to BHL from Yale University’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library and the online Medical Heritage Library: An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King’s College, by physician-botanist John Forbes Royle.

From July to September of this year, BHL received permission for 43 new in-copyright titles, all as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. This is a slight increase over the numbers added in the first two quarters. BHL licenses content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license Below are the 43 titles added in the second quarter, in the order permission was secured. For those that have already been scanned or uploaded, links are available. Look for the rest as they’re added to the collection; you can check the recent additions, or see all the permission titles available in BHL on the permissions page. Titles in BHL have been digitized/contributed by the rights holders unless otherwise stated. Alabama Academy of Science Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science Denver Botanic Gardens Green Thumb News Green Thumb Newsletter Mountain, Plain, and Garden The Green Thumb American Association of Zoo Keepers AAZK Bulletin AAZK Newsletter Ruptured Rhino The Avicultural Society Avicultural Magazine Oregon Flora Project Oregon Flora Newsletter Kelly Allred The New Mexico Botanist New York State Ornithological Association The Kingbird The Arboretum Foundation Arboretum Bulletin University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin Lunds Botaniska Förening Opera Botanica, v.42 (1977) Illinois State Academy of Science Transactions Brooklyn Botanic Garden A Teaching Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Greater New York, Including the Kinds Most Commonly Seen in Cultivation (1933 and 1947 editions) Guide to Trees and Shrubs Based on Those of Greater New York: Native, Naturalized, and Commonly Cultivated Exotic Kinds Leaflet / Leaflets Plants and Gardens Plants of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council and Southeast Exotic Plant Pest Council Wildland WeedsUniversity of Florida/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Aquaphyte International Ornithologists’ Union IXe Congrès Ornithologique International, Rouen, 9 au 13 Mai 1938 (Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries) Tulane University Tulane Studies in Geology Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology University of Texas Austin Libraries Contributions in Marine Science University of Texas at Austin Bulletins and Publications African Violet Society of America African Violet Magazine Ohio Biological Survey Ohio Biological Survey Notes The Natural History Society of Maryland Bulletin Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society Maryland Naturalist Maryland: A Journal of Natural History Proceedings Texas Ornithological Society Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society Occasional Publications Desert Botanical Garden Agave Saguaroland Bulletin The Sonoran Quarterly Torrey Botanical Society Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club American Ornithological Society Proceedings of the XIIIth Ornithological Congress Museum of Texas Tech University Occasional Papers Special Publications Department of Malacology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Tryonia American Daffodil Society The Daffodil Bulletin The Daffodil Journal BHL thanks the many individuals and organizations who have so generously allowed their publications to be digitized and made available to the world under open access. If there’s a book or journal you would like to see in BHL, please let us know! And as always, don’t forget to follow BHL on Facebook, Twitter (@BioDivLibrary), Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr.

Over the course of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) project, contributing organizations have shipped material to Internet Archive scanning centers around the country. A few have scanned their own material, and a few more have used third-party commercial services. One EABL contributor did things a little differently.

Betsy Kruthoffer, Librarian and Rare Books Cataloger at the Lloyd Library and Museum, selected a number of important titles from the library’s collection that were not in BHL. After weighing various scanning options, she got in touch with the digital lab at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH), which had done good work for a Lloyd patron the previous year (and, conveniently, is located right down the street). PLCH agreed to do the scanning, with the understanding that the digitized books would also be made available in a PLCH online collection.

Last week the Association of Zoos and Aquariums held its annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. The conference draws around 2,800 attendees from a diverse group of institutions and organizations around the world. The Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature team was able to send representation and take part in the poster presentations.

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.