Archive for August, 2012

New book list, August 29, 2012

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Academic jubilee to Alberto C. Riccardi.
Susana E. Damborenea, Miguel O. Manceñido (guest editors). Genève : Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, 2012. HOLLIS# 013327031
QE731.A34 2012

Action plan for the conservation management of bats : 2005-2009.
Developed by : Matti Masing, Vello Keppart and Lauri Lutsar ; editors : K. Lotman … [et al.]. Tartu : Eesti Terioloogia Selts, 2008. HOLLIS# 013318720
QL737.C5 M27 2008

Analysis of phylogenetics and evolution with R.
By Emmanuel Paradis. 2nd ed. New York : Springer, c2012. HOLLIS# 013187257
QH83.P37 2012

Animals and sociology.
By Kay Peggs. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. HOLLIS# 013329981
QL85.P437 2012

Aves : a survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.
By Tom Taylor ; with contributions by Michael L. Taylor ; foreword by Elaine B. Smyth. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Libraries, 2011. HOLLIS# 013327364
QL685.7.T39 2011

Boreal birds of North America : a hemispheric view of their conservation links and significance.
Jeffrey V. Wells, editor. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013327096
QL685.B67 2011

Contributions to the history of herpetology. Volume 3: Issued to commemorate the 7th World Congress of Herpetology, Vancouver 2012.
Edited by Kraig Adler. Oxford, Ohio : S.S.A.R.,1989- . HOLLIS# 001838687
REF QL640.C6 1989 v. 3

Diverzitet zglavkara u šumama područja Obedske bare.
By Milka M. Glavendekić. Title of summary: Arthropod diversity in the forests of the area of Obedska Bara. Petrovaradin : Vojvodinasume, 2011. HOLLIS# 013188182
QL434.55.S47 G52 2011

Ecological niches and geographic distributions.
By A. Townsend Peterson … [et al.]. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013328732
QH546.3.E26 2011

Ecology, conservation, and management of grouse.
By Brett K. Sandercock, Kathy Martin, and Gernot Segelbacher, editors. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013327124
QL696.G27 E26 2011

Emerging avian disease.
Ellen Paul, editor. 1st ed. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013327088
SF994.E64 2012

Handbook of paleoichthyology.
Edited by Hans-Peter Schultze ; initiated by Oskar Kuhn. Stuggart ; New York : G. Fischer Verlag, 1978- . HOLLIS# 000805039
QE851.H35 v. 3E

Harivesiliku kaitse eestis.
[By] R. Rannap, P. Pappel, M. Linnamägi. Tallinn : Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia, 2008. HOLLIS# 013327984
QL668.C28 R25 2008

Information Technologies for Remote Monitoring of the Environment.
By Vladimir F. Krapivin and Anatolij M. Shutko. Berlin ; Chichester : Springer, in association with Praxis Publishing ; 2012. HOLLIS# 013330019
QH541.15.M64 K72 2012

Introduction to the senses : from biology to computer science.
Terry Bossomaier. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013327061
QP431.B59 2012

Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1847-1919) and his contributions to malacology : a malacological biography and bibliography.
A.N. van der Bijl, R.G. Moolenbeek and J. Goud ; [ed. J. Buijse]. Leiden : Netherlands Malacological Society (NMV), c2010. HOLLIS# 012949244
QL31.M27 B55 2010

Microbes and evolution : the world that Darwin never saw.
Edited by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy. Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013328475
QR13.M522 2012

MOSJ statusrapport 2011 miljøgifter.
[By] Geir Wing Gabrielsen … [et al.]. Tromsø : Norsk Polarinstitutt, 2011. HOLLIS# 013327149
QC981.8.G56 M68 2011

Numerical ecology.
By Pierre Legendre, Louis Legendre. 3rd ed. Oxford : Elsevier, 2012. HOLLIS# 013330004
QH541.15.M34 M34 2012

Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
By Sachiko Kusukawa. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013309992
QH46.5.K87 2012

Population demography of northern spotted owls.
By Eric D. Forsman … [et al.]. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013327111
QL696.S83 P665 2011

Report of the Global Conference on Aquaculture, 2010 : farming the waters for people and food : Phuket, Thailand, 20-25 September 2010.
Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization, 2012. HOLLIS# 013327174
SH136.S88 G56 2010

Report of the sixth session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries, Rome, 10-12 May 2011.
Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa, 2011. HOLLIS# 013337693
SH328.F663 2011

Small-scale rainbow trout farming.
By András Woynarovich, György Hoitsy, and Thomas Moth-Poulsen. Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. HOLLIS# 013327850
SH167.R34 W69 2011

Surveying natural populations.
By Lee-Ann C. Hayek and Martin A. Buzas. New York : Columbia University Press, 1997. HOLLIS# 007193670
QH352.H39 1997

Video surveillance of nesting birds.
Christine A. Ribic, Frank R. Thompson III, and Pamela J. Pietz, editors. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013327082
QL677.4.R53 2012

What’s so good about biodiversity? : a call for better reasoning about nature’s value.
By Donald S. Maier. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2012.
HOLLIS# 013329993
QH541.15.B56 M35 2012

Zaštita i očuvanje zelenih žaba u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori.
By Georg Džukić. Belgrade : Savezni sekretarijat za rad, zdravstvo i socijalno staranje, Sektor za životnu sredinu, 2003. HOLLIS# 013191574
QL668.E27 D98 2003

Babies!

Friday, August 24th, 2012

The hissing cockroaches have had babies. The big tank holds most of the colony (thank you, Alan Grant!) but next to it is a smaller maternity group, and the babies are there.
Offerings of banana or apple slices gratefully received. Check with Dorothy or Ronnie.

Wildlife around the Museum

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

As you might already know, the Ernst Mayr Library has a colony of hissing cockroaches as library pets. Recently these cockroaches have moved to larger digs. The new, big tank was donated by Dr. Alan Grant, a Visiting Scientist at HSPH. Thank you Dr. Grant! Stop by and hold a few hissing cockroaches and you will wonder why you ever thought your cat was so cuddly.
Hissing cockroaches as Library pets
Occasionally you can also see wildlife around the MCZ–living animals, not just the amazing research collections full of treasures or the incredible exhibits in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
In June, I walked out of the building and was privileged to watch a turkey hen foraging. The turkey didn’t seem bothered by the people walking along the paths.

More recently, as I hurried to the Oxford St. garage, anxious to get home, I was stopped in my tracks when I saw a young rabbit hopping around near the entrance.

Romantically, I would like to think there is a previously unknown breeding colony of New England Cottontails (Sylvilagus transitionalis) finding enough scrubby acreage to survive and stealthily hiding from the humans at Harvard,

New England Cottontail, TheAnimalFiles.com


or even some sneaky Eastern cottontails (Sylvilagus floridanus). Alas, I am probably living in a fantasy world and this one has escaped from a less ideal setting. Any mammalogists want to comment?

New books list, August 8, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

The adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology.
Edited by Erik Svensson, Ryan Calsbeek. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013291047
QH366.2.A32 2012

All about ants.
By Peggy P. and Mervin W. Larson. Rev. ed. New York : Crowell, 1976. HOLLIS# 013306103
QL565.L27 1976

All the birds of the Bible : their stories, identification and meaning.
By Alice Parmelee. New Canaan, Conn. : Keats Pub., 1959. HOLLIS# 013306096
BS664.P3 1959

Animal discoveries 2010 : new species and new records.
Compiled by Director, Zoological Survey of India [K. Venkataraman ; contributors, Amalendu Chatterjee … et al.]. Kolkata : Zoological Survey of India, c2011. HOLLIS# 013310762
QL309.A545 2011

Birds at Bartholomew’s Cobble, Sheffield, Massachusetts.
By S. Waldo Bailey. Warden. [S.l. : Trustees of Reservations, 1965?] HOLLIS# 013306093
QL684.M4 B35 1965

Birds of the Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley : a list of birds observed in the garden.
[Berkeley, Calif.? : s.n., 19–] HOLLIS# 013310766
QL684.C2 B47

Bully for brontosaurus : reflections in natural history.
By Stephen Jay Gould. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1991. HOLLIS# 002178417
QH45.5.G68 1991

Butterflies of the world : a handy guidebook to more than 50 butterfly, skipper, and moth families.
By Alexander B. Klots. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1976. HOLLIS# 013310768
QL542.K56 1976

Dragonflies and damselflies of the East.
By Dennis Paulson. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013108910
QL520.2.A1 P378 2011

Ecology and the environment : perspectives from the humanities.
Edited by Donald K. Swearer ; with Susan Lloyd McGarry. Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009. HOLLIS# 011759640
GE105.E36 2009

Eesti rõngusside (Annelida) määraja = A guide to the Estonian Annelida.
By Tarmo Timm. Tartu : Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus, 1999. HOLLIS# 013318723
QL391.A6 T53 1999

Essays in social biology.
By Bruce Wallace. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1972] HOLLIS# 001121168
QH333.W35 1972 v. 1-3

Feather fashions and bird preservation : a study in nature protection.
By Robin W. Doughty. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975. HOLLIS# 004667862
QL676.5.D75 1975

Field guide to Acadia National Park (Maine).
By Russell D. Butcher. New York : Reader’s Digest Press : distributed by Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977. HOLLIS# 000755296
F27.M3 B86 1977

Guide and historical souvenir of stage one of the New York Aquarium.
Written and designed by William Bridges … [et al]. New York : New York Zoological Society, 1957. HOLLIS# 013306102
QL79.U62 N48 1957

A guide to Acadia National Park and the nearby coast of Maine.
By Grant W. Sharpe. Under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim. Illustrated by Jane Ingraham Rupp. New York, Golden Press [1968] HOLLIS# 013310767
QH105.M2 S45 1968

Guide to the New York Zoological Park,
By Raymond L. Ditmars [and] Lee S. Crandall. [10th ed.]. New York, New York Zoological Society [1956] HOLLIS# 013306080
QL76.5.U62 N53 1956

Hawaii’s birds.
Edited by Robert J. Shallenberger. 2nd ed. Honolulu : Hawaii Audubon Society, c1978. HOLLIS# 013306088
QL684.H3 H38 1978

Insects of the world.
By Jeanne E. Remington. Toronto ; London : Bantam, 1975. HOLLIS# 013310763
QL463.R45 1975

An introduction to Massachusetts birds.
[Text, Christopher W. Leahy ; ill., N. W. Cusa ; prepared by the Natural History Services Department]. [Lincoln] : Massachusetts Audubon Society, c1975. HOLLIS# 013306092
QL684.M4 L42 1975

Life in the Mediterranean Sea : a look at habitat changes.
By Noga Stambler, editor. New York : Nova Science, c2012. HOLLIS# 013227844
QH93.L54 2012

The lives of a cell : notes of a biology watcher.
By Lewis Thomas. Toronto; New York; : Bantam Books, 1975, c1974. HOLLIS# 000800036
QH331.T45 1975

The living world. Volumes 1 & 2.
By David Stanbury. London, Macmillan, 1970- HOLLIS# 013306100
QL482.S72 1970 v. 1-2

Mercury in the environment : pattern and process.
Edited by Michael S. Bank. 1st ed. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2012. HOLLIS: 013317770
TD196.M38 M466 2012

Microbe hunters.
By Paul de Kruif. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1954. HOLLIS# 005276413
QR31.A1 D4 1954

Ornitologia italiana : identificazione, distribuzione, consistenza e movimenti degli uccelli italiani. Vol. 7, Paridae – Corvidae.
[By] Pierandrea Brichetti, Giancarlo Fracasso ; disegni di Silvia Gandini. Bologna : Alberto Perdisa editore, c2003-. HOLLIS# 012816896
QL690.I8 B75 2003 v. 7 [with CD-ROM]

Pond life; a guide to common plants and animals of North American ponds and lakes.
By George K. Reid. Illustrated by Sally D. Kaicher and Tom Dolan. New York, Golden Press [1967] HOLLIS# 013310764
QH102.R44 1967

The psychology and behaviour of animals in zoos and circuses.
By H. Hediger. Translated by Geoffrey Sircom. New York, Dover Publications [1968] HOLLIS# 001120802
QL785.H366 1968

San Diego zoo : official guide book of the zoological garden, Balboa Park, San Diego, California.
Zoological Society of San Diego, Inc. [c1966] HOLLIS# 013306106
QL76.5.U62 S35 1966

Sanctuary : produced for Man & nature, the yearbook of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
General editor: Wayne Hanley. Lincoln, Mass. : The Society, 1977. HOLLIS# 001128340
QH105.M4 S25 1977

The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tide-marks.
By Augusta Foote Arnold. New York, Dover Publications [1968]. HOLLIS# 000938493
QH95.7.A7 1968

Sea birds.
By David Saunders ; illustrated by Ken Lilly. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1974, c1973. HOLLIS# 013310765
QL676.S18 1974

Sexual reproduction.
By Susan Michelmore. [1st ed. in the U. S. A.] Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1965. HOLLIS# 001121235
QH481.M5 1965

The sounding of the whale : science & cetaceans in the twentieth century.
By D. Graham Burnett. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012. HOLLIS# 013078678
QL737.C4 B86 2012

Tree thinking : an introduction to phylogenetic biology.
By David A. Baum and Stacey D. Smith. Greenwood Village, Colo. : Roberts, c2013. HOLLIS# 013283173
QH367.5.B38 2013