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The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Vast Library of Life
1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Smithsonian Libraries
California Digital Library | Oakland, CA | 24 April 2012
2. A Well-Appointed Library
In any well-appointed Natural
History Library there should be
found every book and every
edition of every book dealing in
the remotest way with the
subjects concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium,
March 1922
3. A large library
Yet another physical difficulty is the
task of assembling the library and
indexes which will enable the
student to work under proper
conditions…. the beginner must
now be prepared to spend liberally,
or else must establish himself in an
institution where a large library
exists; if he work by himself with
only a few books, he will have to
confine himself to a very narrow
specialty indeed.
'The Limitations of Taxonomy' by J.M. Aldrich, Science, April 22, 1927,
vol. LXV, no. 1686, p.381
9. Biodiversity Heritage Library
American Museum of
Smithsonian Libraries
Natural History
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Field Museum
Missouri Botanical Garden
California Academy of
Academy of Natural
Sciences
Sciences (Philadelphia)
Cornell University Library
Marine Biological
Museum of Comparative Laboratory/WHOI
Zoology (Harvard)
Harvard Botany Libraries
New York Botanical
US Geological Survey
Garden
Library
Natural History Museum
(London)
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25. Looking Forward
The cultivation of
natural science cannot
be efficiently carried
on without reference
to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al
(1847)
Darwin, C. R. et al. 1847. Copy of Memorial to
the First Lord of the Treasury [Lord John
Russell], respecting the Management of the
British Museum. Parliamentary Papers,
Accounts and Papers 1847, paper number
(268), volume XXXIV.253 (13 April): 1-3.
[Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online]
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Martin R. Kalfatovic | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Smithsonian Libraries
California Digital Library | Oakland, CA | 24 April 2012