This week, the BHL collection surpassed 64 million pages!
This remarkable milestone reflects the contributions of BHL members, contributors, staff, volunteers, supporters, and users across our global community over the past 20 years. Every digitised book, journal, field book, archive, illustration, metadata enhancement, and workflow improvement has helped build BHL into the extraordinary resource it is today.
Like the branching forms of coral reefs, BHL continues to grow as an interconnected network of biodiversity knowledge, linking literature, science, collections, data, and discovery across centuries and continents.
Thank you to everyone in this community who has helped make this possible, and to everyone continuing to shape BHL’s next chapter.
Illustration: The Fan Gorgonia or Venus’ Fan, Gorgonia flabellum (1790) from The Naturalist’s Miscellany v.1, by George Shaw. Illustrated by Frederick Polydore Nodder : https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59891468
I did a fulltextsearch in BHL for “least impressive”. It’s quite a common phrase across our 64 million pages.
"Snails may be the leastimpressive of molluscs in size, but they may be the most dangerous." from an article entitled Molluscan Fact and Fantasy (1989)
Ever wondered what takes the prize for "the smallest and least impressive of all the
pitcher plants", find it here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801139. From Chapters in Modern Biology (1893).
And then from Darwinism and human life (1909):
EVIDENCES OF NATURAL SELECTION.—One of the most interesting—though, from the nature of the case, least impressive—steps of progress since Darwin’s day is the attempt to secure definite evidence of the operation of natural selection.
This week, the BHL collection surpassed 64 million pages!
