Ernst Mayr Library

Amphibian biology. Volume 9, part 3. Status of decline of amphibians: western hemisphere. Part 3, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Edited by Harold Heatwole. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1994- . HOLLIS# 006273627
Herp. QL667.A47 1994 v. 9, pt. 3

Binding and kinetics for molecular biologists.
By James A. Goodrich and Jennifer F. Kugel. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2007. HOLLIS# 010574550
QP517.P76 G66 2007

Birds of Kansas.
By Max C. Thompson … [et al]. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2011. HOLLIS# 013724339
QL684.K2 B57 2011

The Cambrian explosion: the construction of animal biodiversity.
By Douglas H. Erwin, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, James W. Valentine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Greenwood Village, Colorado: Roberts and Company, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013748827
QE721.2.E85 D68 2013

Catalogue des noms de poissons ayant une importance commeriale en Méditerranée = Catalogue of the names of fishes of commercial importance in the Mediterranean. Catalogue of the names of fishes of commercial importance in the Mediterranean.
Rome, FAO, 1960. HOLLIS# 013726956
QL614.7.C37 1960 [gift of Karsten Hartel]

Climate change, ecology, and systematics.
Edited by Trevor R. Hodkinson … [et al.]. 1st ed. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. HOLLIS# 013731801
QC981.C628 2011

The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 20, 1872.
[Editors, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith]. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985-<2013>. HOLLIS# 000104729
QH31.D2 A33 v. 20

Ecology and bio-diversity of the Tanguar Haor: a unique wetland of Bangladesh.
By Khandoker Azizul Islam. Dhaka: Sajeda Akhter, 2011. HOLLIS# 013698903
QH193.B35 I75 2011

Al encuentro del naturalista Manuel Martínez de la Escalera (1867-1949).
By Carolina Martín Albadalejo, Isabel Izquierdo Moya (eds.). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 2011. HOLLIS# 013662821
QH31.M336 A42 2011 [CD-ROM]

Evolution and senses: opsins, bitter taste, and olfaction.
By Yoshinori Shichida … [et al.]. Tokyo; London: Springer, 2013. HOLLIS# 013707287
QH371.3.S4 E86 2013

Fauna, flora i biostratigrafii͡a mezozoi͡a i kaĭnozoi͡a Mongolii = Mongolyn mezozoĭ ba kaĭnozoĭn amʹtan, urgamal ba biostratigrafi : [Sbornik stateĭ].
Red. kollegii͡a … B.A. Trofimov (otv. red.) … [et al.]. Moskva : Nauka, 1977. HOLLIS# 011169532
QE731.F28 1977 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Fauna of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary & Tiger Reserve, Karnataka, India. Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Reserve Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2013. HOLLIS# 013756365
QL309.F37124 2013

Fauna of Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, Meghalaya.
Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, January 2013. HOLLIS# 013756447
QL309.F3787 2013

Field guide to the mammals of the Indian subcontinent: where to watch mammals in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
By K.K. Gurung and Raj Singh. San Diego: Academic Press, c1996. HOLLIS# 013717364
QL729.S64 G87 1996 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

From clone to bone: the synergy of morphological and molecular tools in palaeobiology.
Edited by Robert J. Asher, Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK and Johannes Mè̈̈uller, Museum fè̈ur Naturkunde/Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013724335
QE721.2.E85 F76 2012

Guide to fossil man: a handbook of human palaeontology.
2nd ed. London: Cassell, 1967(1969). HOLLIS# 013713448
GN739.D29 1969 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California.
By Daniel J. Miller and Robert N. Lea. [Sacramento] State of California, Dept. of Fish and Game, 1972. HOLLIS# 013726936
QL628.C2 M53 1972 [gift of Karsten Hartel]

História, pesquisa e biodiversidade do Monumento Natural das Ilhas Cagarras.
Editores: Fernando Moraes, Áthila Bertoncini, Aline Aguiar. Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional, 2013. HOLLIS# 013742523
QH117.H578 2013

Human origins: Louis Leakey and the East African evidence.
Edited by Glynn Ll. Isaac and Elizabeth R. McCown. Menlo Park, Calif.: W. A. Benjamin, c1976. HOLLIS# 001068579
GN282.H85 1976 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Human – Wildlife Conflicts in Europe: fisheries and fish-eating vertebrates as a model case.
Reinhard A. Klenke, Irene Ring, Andreas Kranz, Niels Jepsen, Felix Rauschmayer, Klaus Henle, editors. Berlin: Springer, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013715299
GF75.H85 2013

Infobiotics: information in biotic systems.
By Vincenzo Manca. Heidelberg: Springer, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013714742
QH323.5.M345 2013

Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 4.
[By] Heinz Freude, Karl Wilhelm Harde, Gustav Adolf Lohse ; fortgeführt von Bernard Klausnitzer. 2. (erweiterte) Aufl. München: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (Elsevier), 2004- . HOLLIS# 013743582
QL591.A1 F74 2004 Bd. 4

Life in a gall: the biology and ecology of insects that live in plant galls.
By Rosalind Blanche. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, c2012. HOLLIS# 013724344
SB767.B63 2012

Mammalogy.
By Harvey L. Gunderson. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1976. HOLLIS# 013716900
QL703.G85 1976 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Morphology of the giant panda; systematic anatomy and organ-histology
Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she: Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing, 1986. HOLLIS# 013716889
QL737.C214 T315 1986 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Multiple stable states in natural ecosystems.
By Peter Petraitis, Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714776
QH541.P445 2013

Natural history: a selection.
By Pliny the Elder; translated with an introduction and notes by John F. Healy. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1991. HOLLIS# 007072386
QH41.P721713 1991 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Paleozoologii͡a SSSR: bibliografii͡a otechestvennoĭ literatury za 1917-1967 gg. : v 2-kh knigakh.
L.K. Bzhelenko [… i dr.]. Moskva: Nauka, 1971-1974. HOLLIS# 013705250
QE755.R8 B9 1971 v. 2 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Paleontologii͡a i biostratigrafii͡a Mongolii. Paleontology and biostratigraphy of Mongolia.
Redakt͡sionnai͡a kollegii͡a N.N. Kramarenko (otv. redaktor) … [et al.]. Moskva: Nauka, 1976. HOLLIS# 013713468
QE756.M6 P34 1976 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

The primate brain.
Editors Charles R. Noback, William Montagna. New York: Meredith Corp., c1970. HOLLIS# 006735020
QL737.P9 P672 1970 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Reptiles and amphibians of the Pacific Islands: a comprehensive guide. By George R. Zug. Berkeley: University of California Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013724345
QL664.A1 Z84 2013

Die Steinfliegen der Schweiz: Bestimmung und Verbreitung = Les plecopteres de Suisse: identification et distribution.
By Verena Lubini, Sandra Knispel, Gilles Vincon. Neuchatel: Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune, Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, 2012. HOLLIS# 013728995
QL530.24.S84 L82 2012

Teriologii͡a v SSSR.
Otvetstvennye redaktory toma V.E. Sokolov, V.V. Kucheruk. Moskva: Izd-vo “Nauka”, 1984. HOLLIS# 011090442
QL728.S65 T47 1984 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

The world of fishes: guide to the fish collections of the American museum of natural history.
By William King Gregory and Francesca Lamonte. New York: The Museum, 1934. HOLLIS# 013739408
QL618.A5 1934 [gift of Karsten Hartel]

Zubr = European bison: Morfologi͡ia, sistematika, ėvol͡iu͡tsi͡ia, ėkologi͡ia.
[V. E. Sokolov, K. K. Flerov, V. ͡IU. Reshetov … et al.; Otv. red. i avt. predisl. V. E. Sokolov] Moskva: Nauka, 1979. HOLLIS# 011168228
QL737.U53 Z82 1979 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Works by James Henry Blake (1845-1941) on display at the Ernst Mayr Library

A new exhibit of drawings and watercolors by J.H. Blake, is now on display in the lobby of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.   Join us for a reception in honor of the exhibit on July 25, 2013 from 2:30-4:30pm.  The exhibit was developed by Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian.  Notes on Blake’s life and work follow below.

Best known as the Hassler Expedition’s young zoological artist from Provincetown, Blake entered business in early life with his stepfather before deciding to enroll at Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School in 1864 to study natural history under Louis Agassiz.  That was a tumultuous time for the Museum of Comparative Zoology founder, as his early student assistants, including F.W. Putnam, S.H. Scudder, A.S. Packard, A. Hyatt, A.E. Verrill and A.S. Bickmore, had just left the museum after the professor refused to grant them permanent appointments due to various conflicts.

Blake was hired as an MCZ student assistant three years later to help Agassiz organize the Thayer Expedition collections, sorting the multitude of laboratory jars of Brazilian fishes, and was in fact paid out of the funds supplied by Nathaniel Thayer.  In 1868, he was working in the MCZ Conchology Department, drawing the characteristic features of the soft parts of fresh-water mollusks.

By 1871 Blake, who married Lucinda Smith Critchett that summer, had begun arranging the mollusk collections when Agassiz elected to take him on the “Deep-Sea Dredging Expedition,” as he initially called the Hassler trek, to make use of his artistic skills.  Blake also supervised the fishing operations, with the expedition taking home about 30,000 fish specimens.

Blake’s 152-page scrapbook, one of the Ernst Mayr Library’s most prized holdings, is filled with clippings and manuscript leaves chronicling details of the Hassler Expedition.  In later years, Blake was very protective of the history of the voyage on which his career had essentially begun and on occasion mailed off letters of correction when newspaper stories mangled its facts.

In September 1872, after Agassiz’s Hassler party returned to Cambridge overland from San Francisco, Blake resumed his duties systematically organizing the MCZ’s “alcoholic mollusca.”  Three years later, Thayer’s funding for Blake’s salary would run out, and he left the MCZ.

With nine years of training under Louis Agassiz, Blake had no difficulty resuming his career outside of Harvard, serving as artist for the Vineyard Sound Survey of the U.S. Fish Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Mississippi Geological Survey.  In addition to illustrating many natural history publications, such as his drawings of fish collected during Alexander Agassiz’s 1891 Albatross Expedition to the Pacific in the MCZ Memoirs (v. 24, 1899) and his West Indies echinoderm drawings in the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication (no. 281, 1919), he gave lectures throughout the country and helped found the Boston Malacological Club.

Blake never lost his affection for the MCZ and Louis Agassiz, telling lecture audiences that during classes he always took the closest desk to the professor.  As the last surviving Agassiz assistant (and outlived as an Agassiz student only by Edward A. Birge, president of the University of Wisconsin), he bequeathed much of his artwork and personal collections, including numerous photographs, drawings, clippings and books about whales–his lifelong passion–to the museum.

Blake passed away in 1941 at age ninety-six in Somerville, MA and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, also the final resting place of the professor who took him to sea.

The balance of nature and human impact.
Edited by Klaus Rohde, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013707265
QH352.B34 2013

Bali marine rapid assessment program 2011.
Edited by Putu Liza Kusuma Mustika, I Made Jaya Ratha, Saleh Purwanto. First English edition. Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia: Marine and Fisheries Affairs, Bali: South East Asia Center for Ocean Research and Monitoring: Warmadewa University : Conservation International Indonesia, c2012. HOLLIS# 013707267
QH186.B35 2012

Behavioral genetics of the mouse. Volume 1.
Edited by Wim E. Crusio, Frans Sluyter, Robert T. Gerlai, Susanna Pietropaolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013- . HOLLIS# 013707270
QH432.B44 2013 v. 1

Biodiversity monitoring and conservation: bridging the gap between global commitment and local action.
Edited by Ben Collen, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan E.M. Baillie, Sarah Durant. Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. HOLLIS# 013707274
QH541.15.B56 B5786 2013

Biogeography and biodiversity of Western Atlantic mollusks.
By Edward J. Petuch, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University; photography by Dennis Sargent. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013707276
QL408.2.P465 2013

Dissection of the fetal pig.
[2d ed.] San Francisco, Freeman, [c1974]. HOLLIS# 013713445
QL812.W26 1974 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes.
Edited by Steve Wratten. Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. HOLLIS# 013707284
QH541.15.E267 E28 2013

Game-theoretical models in biology.
By Mark Broom, Jan Rychtář. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013713140
QH323.5.B753 2013

Grant’s dissector.
By Eberhardt K. Sauerland; Wanda S. Sauerland, digital art and composition. 12th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , c1999. HOLLIS# 008143956
QM34.G75 1999

Key topics in conservation biology 2.
Edited by David W. Macdonald & Katherine J. Willis. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. HOLLIS# 013714750
QH75.K472 2013

Mammals and their extinct relatives: a guide to the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing.
By Lowell Dingus… [et al.]. New York, N.Y.: American Museum of Natural History, c1994. HOLLIS# 013713449
QH70.U52 N4113 1994 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Marine proteins and peptides: biological activities and applications. Edited by Se-Kwon Kim, Pukyong National University. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714769
QP551.M27 2013

The mistaken extinction: dinosaur extinction and the origin of birds.
By Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe. New York: W.H. Freeman, c1998. HOLLIS# 007641453
QE862.D5 D4928 1998 [gift of Farish Jenkins]

Multiscale simulations and mechanics of biological materials.
Edited by Shaofan Li, University of California at Berkeley, USA, Dong Qian, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. HOLLIS# 013714779
QH513.M85 2013

The ocean as a global system.
Editors, Ivar Ekeland, Damien Fessler, Jean-Michel Lasry, Delphine Lautier. Portland, Oregon: Eska Publishing, c2013. HOLLIS# 013714782
QH545.F53 O343 2011

Population fluctuations in rodents.
By Charles J. Krebs. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714789
QL737.R6 K94 2013

Primate adaptation and evolution.
By John G. Fleagle. 3rd ed. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714793
QL737.P9 F57 2013

Primate ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques.
Edited by Eleanor J. Sterling, Nora Bynum and Mary E. Blair. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714797
QL737.P9 P753 2013

The sociable sciences: Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile.
By Patience A. Schell. First edition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. HOLLIS# 013714799
QH119.S34 2013

Wetland landscape characterization: practical tools, methods, and approaches for landscape ecology.
By Ricardo D. Lopez, John G. Lyon, Lynn K. Lyon, Debra K. Lopez. Second edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013714803
QH541.5.M3 L67 2013

Sears spoke to the IBA members on June 12, 2013 at the Palazzo delle Scienze, Univ. of Catania.

IBA in Catania

During the week of June 10-16, 2013 the International Bryozoology Association (IBA) met at the University of Catania, Italy.   Four MCZ affiliates are members of the IBA:  Prof. Robert M. Woollacott, OEB graduate student Kira Treibergs, Mary Sears of the Ernst Mayr Library, and Dr. Judith Winston, associate in marine biology at the MCZ.

Mary Sears gave an address on the life and work of Benjamin Grave (1878-1949), an American invertebrate embryologist who studied the bryozoans of Woods Hole, MA.    The scientific biography is a collaboration with OEB faculty member Robert M. Woollacott.  An expanded version of the talk will appear in a forthcoming volume of the Annals of Bryozoology.

Judith Winston spoke on bryozoologist Mary Dora Rogick (1906-1963) and also gave a presentation on bryozoan species from Southwest Brazil.    A highlight of the conference was Winston’s  dramatic video of living bryozoan colonies supported by single grains of sand.

Bryozoans, or “moss-animals”, are colonial organisms found in marine and freshwater environments.    There are approximately 6000 species of Bryozoa living today, and they appear in the fossil record as early as the Ordovician Period, about 470 million years ago.

Bugula turrita Desor (1848) photo by C. Johnson.

B.H. Grave in 1926 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

The African dung beetle genera.
Adrian L.V. Davis, Andrey V. Frolov and Clarke H. Scholtz. 1st ed. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2008. HOLLIS# 013688702
QL596.S3 D38 2008

Animal personalities: behavior, physiology, and evolution.
Edited by Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013672746
QL751.A667 2013

The biology of hover wasps.
By Stefano Turillazzi. Berlin; New York: Springer, c2012. HOLLIS# 013672754
QL568.V5 T87 2012

Colored atlas of Chinese amphibians and their distributions.
Written by Fei Liang, Ye Changyuan, Jiang Jianping. Chengdu Shi: Sichuan Publishing Group, Sichuan Publishing House of Science & Technology, [2012]. HOLLIS# 013699002
QL661.C6 Z47 2012

Faunal assemblages, stratigraphy and taphonomy of the Late Miocene localities in the Republic of Moldova.
By Aleksandru Lungu and Barbara Rzebik-Kowalska. Kraków: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2011. HOLLIS# 013697255
QE739.L85 2011

Gliding mammals of the world.
By Stephen Jackson; illustrated by Peter Schouten. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Pub., c2012. HOLLIS# 013691671
QL739.J33 2012

Guimarota: a Jurassic ecosystem.
Thomas Martin & Bernard Krebs (editors). München: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2000. HOLLIS# 013705235
QE733.G955 2000 (gift of Farish Jenkins)

Handbook of the mammals of the world. Volume 3, primates.
Chief editors, Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier; associate editors, Sue Ruff, Albert Martínez-Vilalta; authors, Paolo Cavallini … [et al.]. Barcelona: Lynx, c2009-. HOLLIS# 012111668
Ref. QL701.2.H25 2009 v. 3

A history of Polish birds.
By Zygmunt Bocheński, Zbigniew M. Bocheński, and Teresa Tomek. Kraków: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2012. HOLLIS# 013697257
QL690.P7 B63 2012

House dust mites and storage mites (Acari, Oribatida, Astigmatina): identification keys.
By Krzysztof Solarz. Kraków: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2012. HOLLIS# 013697251
QL458.S59 2012

Illustrated keys to free-living invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic seas and adjacent deep waters. Volume 3, Cnidaria, Ctenophora.
Moskva: T-vo nauch. izd. KMK, 2009- HOLLIS# 012566222
QL365.57.I55 2009 v. 3

In the light of evolution. Volume 6, brain and behavior.
John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala, editors. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, c2007-. HOLLIS# 011964899
QH359.I55 2009 v. 6

The lone wolverine: tracking Michigan’s most elusive animal.
By Elizabeth Philips Shaw and Jeff Ford. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012. HOLLIS# 013691686
QL737.C25 S49 2012

The nine-banded armadillo: a natural history.
By W.J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013691673
QL737.E23 L68 2013

Penguins: natural history and conservation.
Edited by Pablo Garcia Borboroglu and P. Dee Boersma. Seattle: University of Washington Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013691691
QL696.S473 P4527 2013

Phylogenomics of the flowering plant clade Malpighiales.
A dissertation presented by Zhenxiang Xi to the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of biology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2013. HOLLIS# 013673175
QK495.M26 X4 2013

Relentless evolution.
By John N. Thompson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013672826
QH366.2.T54 2013

Science and conservation in the Galapagos Islands: frameworks & perspectives.
Stephen J. Walsh, Carlos F. Mena, editors. New York: Springer, c2013. HOLLIS# 013672829
QH198.G3 S35 2013

The second atlas of breeding birds of Vermont.
Edited by Rosalind B. Renfrew. Hanover: University Press of New England, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013691683
QL684.V5 S43 2013

Spiny lobsters: through the eyes of the giant packhorse.
By John Booth. Wellington [Vic.]: Victoria University Press, c2011. HOLLIS# 013691688
QL444.M33 B69 2011

Starfish: biology and ecology of the Asteroidea.
Edited by John M. Lawrence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013672831
QL384.A8 S73 2013

The story of Asia’s elephants.
By Raman Sukumar. Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, 2011.
QL737.P98 S8577 2011

Strickberger’s evolution.
By Brian K Hall & Benedikt Hallgrimsson. 5th ed. Burlington, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2013. HOLLIS# 013672834
QH366.2.S78 2013

Swordfish: a biography of the ocean gladiator.
By Richard Ellis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013691679
QL638.X5 E45 2013

Texas waterfowl.
William P. Johnson and Mark W. Lockwood. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c2013. HOLLIS# 013691675
QL696.A52 J68 2013

Alexander Wilson: the Scot who founded American ornithology.
By Edward H. Burtt, Jr., William E. Davis, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013600625
QL31.W7 B87 2013 (checked out)

The biology of sea turtles. Volume 3.
Edited by Peter L. Lutz and John A. Musick. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1996- . HOLLIS# 007524890
Herp. QL666.C536 B56 1997 (v. 3)

Birds: through Irish eyes.
By Anthony McGeehan with Julian Wyllie. Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork: The Collins Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013668067
QL690.I7 M34 2012

Conservation of Cameroon Montane forests: report of the ICBP Cameroon Montane Forest Survey, November 1983-April 1984.
Edited by S.N. Stuart; contributions by S.N. Stuart … [et al.]. Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, 1986. HOLLIS# 013691554
SD414.C17 C66 1986

Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Volumes 1-9 and atlas.
Par A.M. Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, Auguste H.A. Duméril; with a new introduction by Roger Bour. [Ithaca, New York]: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, c2012. HOLLIS# 013691575
QL641.D86 2012

Essential reproduction.
By Martin H. Johnson. 7th ed. Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. HOLLIS# 013672775
QL739.23.J64 2013

From groups to individuals: evolution and emerging individuality.
Edited by Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013672780
QH331.F885 2013

The history and range expansion of peregrine falcons in the Thule Area, Northwest Greenland.
By Kurt K. Burnham, William A. Burnham, Ian Newton, Jeff A. Johnson and Andrew G. Gosler. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. HOLLIS# 013672794
QL696.F34 B975 2012

The mayflies of Europe (Ephemeroptera).
By Ernst Bauernfeind & Tomáš Soldán. Ollerup: Apollo Books, 2012. HOLLIS# 013673422
QL505.24.A1 B38 2012

Molecular population genetics, evolutionary biology, and biological conservation of neotropical carnivores.
Manuel Ruiz-Garcia and Joseph M. Shostell, editors. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2013]. HOLLIS# 013672810
QL737.C2 M69 2013

Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of chimpanzees: with notes on the attachments, variations, innervation, function and synonymy and weight of the muscles.
By Rui Diogo [and ten others]. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013672823
QL737.P96 D56 2013

Proceedings of the 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama, January 26-31, 1998.
Edited by A. Herrera Cubilla and J.B.C. Jackson. Balboa, Republic of Panama: The Institute, 2000. HOLLIS# 013691557
QL396.I58 1998

The seashells of Greece: 1200 species 1800 illoustration 180 drawing [sic].
By Thanasis Manousis. Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Brothers s.a, c2012. HOLLIS# 013596143
QL425.G8 M25 2012

Spider research in the 21st century: trends & perspectives.
Edited by David Penney, Faculty of Life Sciences, the University of Manchester, UK; foreword by Norman I. Platnick, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.Manchester, UK: Siri Scientific Press,[2013]. HOLLIS# 013668062
QL458.4.S74 2013

The spirit of the hive: the mechanisms of social evolution.
By Robert E. Page. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013600635
QL568.A6 P24 2013

Australian lizards: a natural history.
By Steve K. Wilson. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Pub., c2012. HOLLIS# 013668050
QL666.L2 W55 2012

Birds of prey of Australia: a field guide.
By Stephen Debus; illustrated by Jeff Davies. 2nd ed. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Pub. in association with Birdlife Australia, c2012. HOLLIS# 013668069
QL696.F3 D43 2012

A cameo from the past: the prehistory and early history of the Kruger National Park.
By U. de V. Pienaar and contributors, E.J. Carruthers … [et al.]; translated by Helena Bryden. 1st ed. Pretoria : Protea Book House, 2012. HOLLIS# 013668052
SB484.S5 P5413 2012

Designing wildlife habitats.
John Beardsley, editor. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2013. HOLLIS# 013657310
QH540.D86 2013

Field book of giant fishes.
By J. R. Norman and F. C. Fraser. New York, G. P. Putnam, [1949]. HOLLIS# 002594877
QL615.N58 1949

A healing landscape: environmental and social history of the site of Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center.
By Steven Pavlos Holmes. Lincoln, Massachusetts: Mass Audubon, [2013]. HOLLIS# 013673137
QH76.5.M3 H65 2013

Life: the state of South Africa’s biodiversity 2012.
Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, c2013. HOLLIS# 013673141
QH77.S62 L53 2012

Report of the Expert Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Strategies and Methods in Seafood: Rome, 23-25 January 2012.
Expert Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Strategies and Methods. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012. HOLLIS# 013675986
TD885.5.G73 E96 2012

Winged migration.
Text by Jean-Franois Mongibeaux ; prefaces by Jacques Perrin and Jean Dorst ; Galatée Films photographers, Mathieu Simonet … [et al. ; English translation by David Wharry]. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, c2003. HOLLIS# 013673120
QL698.9.M6613 2003

The world of the bottlenosed dolphin.
By David K. Caldwell and Melba C. Caldwell. [1st ed.]. Philadelphia, Lippincott, [c1972]. HOLLIS# 013673125
QL737.C432 C27 1972

Atlas of prenatal rat brain development.
By Joseph Altman, Shirley A. Bayer; with the assistance of Clark Gedney … [et al.] and a staff of computer engineering students at Purdue University. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, c1995. HOLLIS# 007757268
QL937.A46 1995

Bioluminescence & chemiluminescence: proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Bioluminescence Chemiluminescence: Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, USA : 6-10 September 2000.
Editors J.F. Case … [et al.]. Singapore; New Jersey: World Scientific, c2001. HOLLIS# 013666545
QH641.I585 2000

Echinoderms in a changing world: proceedings of the 13th International Echinoderm Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania, Australia, 5-9 January 2009.
Editor, Craig Johnson. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press: Taylor & Francis Group, [2013] HOLLIS# 013639172
QL381.I57 2009

Ecology of cyanobacteria II: their diversity in space and time.
Brian A. Whitton, editor. [2nd ed.] Dordrecht; New York; London : Springer, c2012. HOLLIS# 013644825
QR99.63.E26 2012

Modeling living systems: from cell to ecosystem.
By Alain Pavé. London: ISTE; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012. HOLLIS# 013639180
QH323.5.P38 2012

El Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1771-1935.
Agustín J. Barreiro ; edición de Pedro M. Sánchez Moreno ; prólogo de Pere Alberch e introducción de Emiliano Aguirre. Aranjuez: Doce Calles,[1992] HOLLIS# 002704959
QH70.S72 M343 1992

North Atlantic batoids and chimaeras relevant to fisheries management: a pocket guide.
Author: Matthias Stehmann. Rome: FAO, c2013. HOLLIS# 013648473
SH351.S62 S73 2012

North Atlantic sharks relevant to fisheries management: a pocket guide. Author: Dave Ebert. Rome: FAO, c2013. HOLLIS# 013648474
SH351.S6 E24 2012

Sensory ecology, behaviour, and evolution.
By Martin Stevens, BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. HOLLIS# 013639184
QP82.S83 2013

Spider ecophysiology.
By Wolfgang Nentwig, editor. Heidelberg; New York : Springer, c2013. HOLLIS# 013668341
QL458.4.S645 2013

Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie, und Evolution = The spider fauna of the Macaronesian Islands : taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, and evolution.
By Jörg Wunderlich. Straubenhardt: J. Wunderlich, c1991. HOLLIS# 013664752
QL453.35.A1 W85 1991

Studies in pest control for cultural property.
By Thomas Strang. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2012. HOLLIS# 013628072
AM145.S77 2012

The survey of best practices in biological & medical laboratory management.
[New York, N.Y.]: Primary Research Group, Inc., c2013. HOLLIS# 013654609
RB36.3.F55 S87 2013

Beginning on April 12, I had the privilege of attending the launch of a newpartner in the BHL family:  BHL Africa.  On April 12, 2013, BHL and the University of Pretoria signed a Memorandum of Understanding as one step towards the BHL Africa.

Signing of the MOU: BHL and the University of Pretoria. Robert Moropa, Library Director, Nancy Gwinn, BHL Chair, Connie Rinaldo, BHL Vice-Chair, Ria Groenewald, Digitization Librarian, University of Pretoria

Then from April 15-17, 2013 we attended the BHL-Africa launch and workshop, hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden in Pretoria, South Africa.  MOUs were gathered from a number of African partners, including the National Museums of Kenya, Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, University of Nairobi, Sokoine National Agricultural University in Tanzania, National Environment Management Authority of Uganda, Lake Victoria Basin Commission, African Conservation Commission, and the Kenya Wildlife Service.  SANBI signed the MOU with BHL in a ceremony on April 15.

Dr. Nancy Gwinn and Dr. Tanya Abrahamse sign the BHL-Africa MOU

The launch of BHL Africa became a reality!  Once BHL Africa was launched, a workshop followed with presentations by BHL members about Collections, Copyright, Governance, Global BHL and Outreach.  We shared how we have reached the current state with our African colleagues and fielded questions.

BHL Africa Launch attendees from all over Africa and some of us from the US.

The next step was to elect officers for the BHL AfricaSteering Committee so  everyone can get to work!  We look forward to sharing content along with our process and seeing a whole new set of information added to the BHL with open access for all.

BHL Africa Steering Committee, from left to right: Lawrence Monda (Technical Advisor), Ashah Owano, Loi Namugenyi, Anne-Lise Fourie (Chair), Ria Groenewald

There was even time to do a little sight-seeing.  Congratulations to BHL Africa–the energy, enthusiasm and sheer hard work we witnessed will ensure success.