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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

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Insects in Amber: Empowering Research on Ancient — and Modern — Insects

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Insects trapped in amber. For anyone who has seen Jurassic Park, this description immediately conjures up familiar imagery. In the movie, such a fortuitously-preserved mosquito provided the means to bring dinosaurs back to life. While that may be the realm of science fiction, in the realm of science, such amber time capsules are still a valuable window into the past, allowing scientists today to examine ancient specimens and, sometimes, discover new species.

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May 9, 2019byGrace Costantino
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For the Love of Cider: Phenotyping Apples with Modern Techniques and Historic Texts

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Dr. Gregory Peck, an Assistant Professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University, has been assessing a large number of apple genotypes for their potential use in hard cider production. Through this work, he has discovered inconsistencies between many U.S. varieties and their original counterparts. He recently teamed up with Dr. Gayle Volk at the United States Department of Agriculture to uncover the truth behind these enigmatic cultivars.

“We employed DNA fingerprinting tools to confirm our suspicions that these were misnamed cultivars,” explains Peck. “But now we’re left with a mystery. What are the misidentified cultivars?”

As it turns out, it’s a mystery that the Biodiversity Heritage Library can help solve.

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June 5, 2018byGrace Costantino
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Hispanic Heritage Month: The Life and Work of Louis Agassiz Fuertes

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The artwork of Puerto Rican-American Louis Agassiz Fuertes has been featured a few times before on the BHL blog. His paintings are beautiful and eye-catching, and always a treat to visit. Through titles available in BHL, we can even see the evolution of Fuertes’s career— from his earliest professional work to his last. The Ithaca-born ornithologist and artist often drew as a young child, sketching domestic animals and wild birds alike.
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October 2, 2014byAdriana Marroquin
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New BHL Steering Committee Members!

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The Library of Congress announced its membership to the Biodiversity Heritage Library today. The fifteenth partner of the BHL, the Library of Congress will contribute to the digitization of historical science literature in the collection. All material will be online, free and available to the public.“The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the preeminent global repository for historic science literature,” said Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Libraries Associate Director for Digital Services and BHL Program Director. “We are excited that the Library of Congress has joined us in this effort, which is a vast information center providing resources to researchers, students and the general public interested in biodiversity.”
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February 22, 2013byMichelle Strizever

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