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Fish Treasures of the Ernst Mayr Library

Friday, June 29th, 2012

“Fish Treasures of the Ernst Mayr Library”

Recently installed in the library was this exhibition showcasing a selection of ichthyological drawings, engravings and manuscripts from Special Collections.  Most famous at the MCZ due to their having been digitized and reproduced in books examining the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865-1866) are the watercolors of Jacques Burkhardt, Louis Agassiz’s personal artist whose Brazil work was the highlight of his brief but increasingly respected career.  More information can be found here.

Another fish artist and collector who sought out a connection with the MCZ was Andrew Garrett (1823-1887), a Hawaii sailor who collected thousands of shell and fish specimens and in 1855 wrote to Louis Agassiz offering to supply the Museum with specimens and watercolors.  Some of those drawings in the current exhibit are accompanied by Garrett’s manuscript notes about the specimens.

Also included are early 1830s manuscript drawings by Joseph Dinkel, another artist collaborator of Louis Agassiz’s; a fossil-fish engraving from Agassiz’s Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles (Neuchatel, 1833-1843); a color plate of a piranha in Marcus Bloch’s Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische (Berlin, 1782-1795); a Clearnose skate engraving in Samuel Garman’s The Plagiostomia : Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Cambridge, Mass., 1913); a brown trout engraving from a Joseph Dinkel drawing in Louis Agassiz’s Histoire Naturelle des Poissons d’Eau Douce de l’Europe Centrale (Neuchatel, 1839-1845); a color plate in James Carson Brevoort’s Notes on Some Figures of Japanese Fish, Taken from Recent Specimens by the Artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition (Washington, D.C., 1856); and anatomical fish illustrations for the scientific papers of Edward Phelps Allis (1911), many of which were discovered in the MCZ’s Romer Library in 1979, as chronicled by Professor George V. Lauder in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 16 (1981). Professor Lauder, students and museum staff enjoyed refreshments after viewing treasures from the library collections.

 

 

 

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Global Biodiversity Heritage Library

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

The third global Biodiversity Heritage Library meeting took place in Berlin, Germany on June 7-8, 2012, hosted by Henning Scholz at  the Museum fur Naturkunde. We covered many important issues during these two days. Representatives attended from the BHL (represented by several institutions in the US and UK), BHLEurope (represented by several institutions in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic and Austria), BHLEgypt (represented by Noha Adley from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina), BHL Australia (represented by Elicia Wallis from the Museum of Victoria) and BHL SciELO (represented by Abel Packer and Fabio Batalha from SciELO in Brazil). Chinese colleagues were unable to attend.
Each global group reported on the state of the BHL in their region. By-laws and a governance structure were approved. Officers were elected for the Executive Committee: Elicia Wallis, Museum Victoria, Australia, Chair; Henning Scholz, Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, Vice-Chair; and Nancy Gwinn, Smithsonian Libraries (and BHL Executive Chair), Secretary. Noha Adley from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was appointed as the global BHL Technical Director. We also discussed how to synchronize BHL data, avoid duplication, address global copyright issues and ensure metadata quality across the regions.
Each region has put its own stamp on their version of the BHL.
The global BHL currently has nodes in Europe, Egypt, China, Brazil, US/UK, and Australia. Following the global BHL meeting, a several members of the Smithsonian, MOBOT, and Field Museum teams continued on to meet African colleagues in South Africa to establish BHL Africa. Chris Freeland, BHL Technical Director was unable to attend the BHL Europe, Global BHL and BHL Africa meetings due to a bike accident.  He never rests, however, and made an amazing video statement to encourage a BHL Africa


The Biodiversity Heritage Library marches on!

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New book list, June 20, 2012

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Here is a list of newly acquired titles now in the Ernst Mayr Library:

Bees : biology, threats and colonies.
Richard M. Florio, editor. New York : Nova Science, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227837.
QL568.A6 B384 2012

Biology of sharks and their relatives.
Editors, Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus. 2nd ed. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. HOLLIS# 013227857.
QL638.6.B56 2012

Choosing and using statistics : a biologist’s guide.
By Calvin Dytham.3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell,
2011. HOLLIS# 013184881.
[electronic book available through HOLLIS]

Cotingas and manakins.
By Guy M. Kirwan and Graeme Green ; illustrated by Eustace Barnes ; with a photographic contribution by Hadoram Shirihai from the collection of the Photographic handbook to birds of the world (Jornvall & Shirihai). Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012, c2011. HOLLIS# 013227513.
QL696.P2368 K57 2012

Coral reef protection and the Clean Water Act.
Isaac H. Frampton and Nina D. Romano, editors. New York : Nova Science, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227839.
QH76.C675 2012

Crabs : anatomy, habitat, and ecological significance.
Kumiko Saruwatari and Miharu Nishimura, editors. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227842.
QL444.M33 C694 2012

Drosophila melanogaster : life cycle, genetics and development.
M. Spindler-Barth, editor. New York : Nova Biomedical Books, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227841.
QL537.D76 D7644 2012

Effective ecological monitoring.
By David B. Lindenmayer and Gene E. Likens. London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan ; Collingwood : CSIRO Pub., c2010. HOLLIS# 012782672.
[Electronic book available through HOLLIS]

Encyclopedia of biological invasions.
Edited by Daniel Simberloff and Marcel Rejmánek. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013236669.
[Electronic book available through HOLLIS]

Evolutionary analogies : is the process of scientific change analogous to the organic change?
By Barbara Gabirella Renzi and Giulio Napolitano. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, c2011. HOLLIS# 013156865.
Q175.R455 2011

The feathery tribe : Robert Ridgway and the modern study of birds.
By Daniel Lewis. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013153547.
QL31.R47 L49 2012

Fishes of Wyoming.
By George T. Baxter, Michael D. Stone ; photography by Luray Parker ; illustrations by Elizabeth Rahel. [Wyoming] : Wyoming Game and Fish Dept., c1995. HOLLIS# 013227122.
QL628.W8 B39 1995

Insect conservation : past, present and prospects.
Tim R. New, editor. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227852.
QL463.I66 2012

Managing research data.
Edited by Graham Pryor. London : Facet Publishing, 2012. HOLLIS# 013080722.
Q180.55.E4 M35 2012

Moths : types, ecological significance, and control methods.
Luis Cauterruccio, editor. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227843.
QL542.M68 2012

The otoliths from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin.
By Werner Schwarzhans. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers, c2010. HOLLIS# 013236694.
QE853.S34 2010

Oysters : physiology, ecological distribution and mortality.
Jian G. Qin, editor. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227848.
QL430.7.O9 O97 2012

Peixes comerciais de Manaus.
By Geraldo Mendes dos Santos, Efrem Jorge G. Ferreira, Jansen A.S. Zuanon. Brasília : Edições Ibama, 2006. HOLLIS# 013236693.
QL638.B8 S36 2006

Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of gibbons and siamangs (Hylobates) : with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, synonymy, and weight of the muscles.
By Rui Diogo … [et al.]. St. Helier, Jersey, British Channel Islands ; Enfield, NH : Science Publishers ; Boca Raton, FL : Marketed and distributed by CRC Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227874.
QL737.P96 P488 2012

Phylogeography and population genetics in Crustacea.
Edited by Christoph Held, Stefan Koenemann, Christoph D. Schubart. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013184855.
[Electronic book available through HOLLIS]

Proving Darwin : making biology mathematical.
By Gregory Chaitin. New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227876.
QH371.3.M37 C42 2012

Quartärpaläontologische Forschung in Weimar, 1962-2011 : Eine Bibliographie.
Zusammengestellt von Bärbel Fiedler. Frankfurt am Main : Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, c2012. HOLLIS# 013241933.
QE741.F54 2011

The second Jurassic dinosaur rush : museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
By Paul D. Brinkman. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. HOLLIS# 012538777.
[Electronic book available through HOLLIS]

Sea turtles of the eastern Pacific : advances in research and conservation.
Edited by Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Bryan P. Wallace ; foreword by Peter C. H. Pritchard. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227877.
QL666.C536 S44 2012

The shaping of life [electronic resource] : the generation of biological pattern.
By Lionel G. Harrison. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. HOLLIS# 013236644.
[Electronic book available through HOLLIS]

The social conquest of earth.
By Edward O. Wilson. 1st ed. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., c2012. HOLLIS# 013150715.
GN360.W53 2012

Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part L, mollusca 4, revised. Vol. 2, carboniferous and Permian ammonoidea. Part T, echinodermata 2, revised. Crinoidea vol. 3.
2d editions directed and edited by Curt Teichert. Editorial assistants: Lavon McCormick [and] Roger B. Williams.2d ed., rev. and enl. Boulder, Colo., Geological Society of America,1970- HOLLIS# 000668588.
QE770.T7 1970

Wolves : biology, behavior, and conservation.
Editors, Ana Paula Maia and Henrique F. Crussi. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publisher’s, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227846.
QL737.C22 W64775 2012

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BHL Europe

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Recently  I travelled to Berlin, Germany to attend the final meeting of BHL Europe, which reached the end of its initial funding stream on April 30, 2012, and the Third Global BHL meeting (another post to come).  The BHL Europe project has come a long way and the international audience received a glimpse of the hard work that went into producing a Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe.  Why is this important?  Check out the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe video.

Scientists have told us how important the Biodiversity Heritage Library is to their work–making information gathering so much easier and reducing the time it takes for them to complete their work.

The BHL Europe portal that is under development has some very impressive options.  I particularly like the book viewer, which can be seen here.  The BHL Europe portal also adds some features that would be nice to add to the current BHL portal like searching (and finding!) monographs, serials AND articles: view portal .  The taxonomic names feature, so important to BHL users, is also available in the BHL Europe portal.  The most impressive and exciting addition to BHL Europe is the Exhibition page.  Currently, there are exhibits about spices and expeditions.  Future exhibitions include poisonous creatures and the development of scientific illustration. The BHL Europe’s collaboration with Europeana offers new ways to explore biodiversity-related data, including items not found in BHL such as photographs and cultural heritage objects.

And one of the highlights of the meeting was the reception in the Museum fur Naturkunde, enjoyed by all of us.  I feel privileged to work with these colleagues from many institutions all over the world.  Thank you to Henning and Anne-Marie Scholz for organizing this meeting to celebrate the success of the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe.  May the collaborations continue to evolve.

 

 

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New book list, June 6, 2012

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Here’s a list of our most recently acquired titles on display in the Library:

Amphibiens d’Afrique Centrale et d’Angola : clé de détermination illustrée des amphibiens du Gabon et du Mbini = illustrated identification key of the amphibians from Gabon and Mbini.
By Thierry Frétey, Maël Dewynter & Charles P. Blanc. [Paris] : Biotope, 2011. HOLLIS# 012682383.
QL662.C4 F73 2011

Azărbai̐jan gushlarynyn katalogu = Katalog ptit︠s︡ Azerbaĭdzhana.
[By] D.G. Tuai̐ev. Katalog ptit︠s︡ AzerbaĭdzhanaBaky : Dȯvlăt Ekoloġii̐a vă Tăbiătdăn Istifadăi̐ă Năzarăt Komităsi, 1996. HOLLIS# 008148888.
QL691.A9 T83 1996

Biologicheskoe raznoobrazie Uralʹskogo Pripechorʹi͡a.
Pod redakt͡sieĭ V.I. Ponomareva i T.N. ystinoĭ.01Биологическое разнообразие Уральского Припечорья /под редакцией В.И. Пономарева и Т.Н. Пыстиной. Syktyvkar : In-t biologii Komi nauch. t͡sentra UrO RAN, 2009. HOLLIS# 012542696.
QH161.B55497 2009

Catálogo de huevos y larvas de peces colectadas en aguas Ecuatorianas.
By Gregoria Calderón Peralta.[Guayaquil : Instituto Nacional de Pesca, 2011]. HOLLIS# 013225444.
QL639.25.P47 2011

Catalogue of aphids of Durmitor (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphidae) = Katalog biljnih vašiju Durmitora (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphididae).
By Olivera Petrović Obradović, François Leclant, Željko Tomanović. Podgorica : Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2011. HOLLIS# 013191614.
QL568.A57 P47 2011

Catalogue of mineral and rock collection by Mr. Yoshio Nakano donated to Toyohashi Museum of Natural History.
By Chisako Katou. Toyohashi : Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, 2010. HOLLIS# 013183683.
QE50.K27 2010

Columbia : paraíso de animales viajeros.
Textos y dirección científica Juan Manuel Díaz Merlano, Carolina García Imhof. Cali, Colombia : Banco de Occidente Credencial, 2011. HOLLIS# 013222157.
QH121.C65 2011

The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 19, 1871.
[Editors, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith]. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985- HOLLIS # 000104729.
QH31.D2 A33 v. 19

Demand and supply of feed ingredients for farmed fish and crustaceans : trends and prospects.
By Albert G.J. Tacon, Mohammad R. Hasan, and Marc Metian. Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. HOLLIS# 013190007.
SH156.T314 2011

Designer animals : mapping the issues in animal biotechnology.
Edited by Conrad G. Brunk and Sarah Hartley. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013156843.
SF140.B54 D48 2012

The ecology of snow and ice environments.
By Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Martyn Tranter and Andrew J. Hodson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013156854.
QH541.5.S57 L39 2012

Erfassung der europäischen Wirbellosen := European invertebrate survey = Cartographie des invertébres Européens = Kartering van de Ongewervelde Dieren van Europe.
Par Jean Leclercq. [Saarbrücken] Biogeographische Abt. des Geographischen Inst. 1973. HOLLIS# 013181522.
QL365.47.A1 L43 1973

Evolutionary history of bats : fossils, molecules and morphology.
Edited by Gregg F. Gunnell and Nancy B. Simmons. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013156871.
QL737.C5 E96 2012

Fauna of Gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Adriatic sea : catalogue.
Editor, Gordan S. Karaman. Podgorica : Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2011. HOLLIS# 013191585.
QL444.M315 K27 2011

Floating gold : a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris.
By Christopher Kemp. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013191361.
QD331.K457 2012

Game theory.
By Drew Fudenberg, Jean Tirole. New Delhi : Ane Books, 2005. HOLLIS# 013181557.
HB144.F83 2005

Harvard University OEB190 : biology and diversity of birds : Panama field trip 2012.[videorecording]
[Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of O.E.B., 2012]. HOLLIS# 013187632.
QL687.P3 H28 2012

Imenotteri d’Italia : Sapygidae – Scoliidae – Methochidae – Mutillidae – Bradynobaenidae.
Presentazione di Franco Tassi. Carmagnola : Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, 2008. HOLLIS# 012246179.
QL567.4.I8 I53 2008

Incidencia de tiburones, rayas, aves, tortugas y mamíferos marinos en la pesquería artesanal con enmalle de superficie en la caleta pesquera de Santa Rosa (Provoncia de Santa Elena).
By Dialhy Coello … [et al.]. [Guayaquil : Instituto Nacional de Pesca], 2011. HOLLIS# 013224646.
SH241.I54 2011

Katalog faune mrava (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Crne Gore =catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Montenegro.
By Marko G. Karaman. Podgorica : Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2011. HOLLIS# 013191607.
QL567.4.M65 K27 2011

Katalog slatkovodnih riba (Osteichthyes) Crne Gore =Catalogue of the freshwater fishes (Osteichthyes) of Montenegro.
By Drago Marić and Dragana Milošević. Podgorica : Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2011. HOLLIS# 013191618.
QL633.M68 M27 2011

Línea base de conocimiento sobre el estado actual de las tortugas marinas en el Ecuador.
By Dialhy Coello y Marco Herrera. [Guayaquil : Instituto Nacional de Pesca], 2011. HOLLIS# 013224630.
QL666.C536 C63 2011

Mortandad de peces en la laguna de Yaguarcocha Cantón Ibarra – provincia de Imbabura, Febrero 2003 y Junio 2005. Editores, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, I. Municipalidad de Ibarra. [Guayaquil : Instituto Nacional de Pesca], 2011. HOLLIS# 013224589.
SH171.M67 2011

Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee : determinatiewerk voor België en Nederland.
By Hans De Blauwe. Oostende : Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, 2009. HOLLIS# 013181297.
QL397.4.A1 B52 2009

Old Tales of the Maine Woods.
Steve Pinkham, [editor]. [Merrimack, N.H.] : Merrimack Media, c2012. HOLLIS# 013221288.
QH105.M2 O53 2012

Physiological investigations into environmental stress response in the hydrothermal vent polychaete Paralvinella sulfincola.
By Geoffrey Fowler Dilly. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, 2011. HOLLIS# 013222165.
QL391.A6 D45 2011

Reptile biodiversity : standard methods for inventory and monitoring.
Edited by Roy W. McDiarmid … [et al.]. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013156917.
QL645.6.R47 2012

Review of the state of world marine fishery resources.
By the Marine and Inland Fisheries Service, Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Use and Conservation Division, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. Rome, Italy :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. HOLLIS# 013223447.
SH327.5.R48 2011

Scientific publications of the California Academy of Sciences, 1854-2010.
By Alan E. Leviton, Guinevere O.U. Wogan, and Michele L. Aldrich ; introduction and historical overview, Alan E. Leviton and Michele L. Aldrich. San Francisco, Calif. : The Academy, [2010]. HOLLIS#: 013186766.
QH15.A12 C28 2010

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Fishy Party on Friday 2-4

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

To celebrate the re-opening of the HMNH Fish exhibit last week, the Library will have a little party onFriday June 8 from 2-4 pm. There will be snacks and drinks, but also an opportunity to view some of the fishy treasures from the Library’s Special Collections. Some of these will be on display, but more will be available inside Special Collections (no food and drink in there, please!). If you attended the Save the Frogs party, you will remember how cool it was to see some of these priceless treasures that are not generally available for viewing. This will be more of the same, only fishy this time. Hope you will join us!

 

 

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