Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Image from Biologia Centrali Americana[1], 1879

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of 10 of the world's leading natural history libraries. The BHL is a cornerstone organization of the Encyclopedia of Life.

The instutions are the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, Harvard University Botany Libraries, Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Marine Biological Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Missouri Botanical Garden, Natural History Museum, the New York Botanical Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and the Smithsonian Institution.

There is an online BHL portal featuring Google Maps API integration, AJAX, tag clouds, and JPEG2000 images that facilitate multi-resolution zoom & pan.