pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Another botanical database in development
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<http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/>
Electronic Biologia Centrali Anericana          
        
This digital edition of the important and out of print Biologia Centrali 
Americana makes all 58 biological volumes available. Descriptions of 
over 50,000 and images of over 18,000 species of animals and plants are 
now accessible as never before. This is the first step towards an 
extraordinary new set of electronic resources and knowledge tools for 
biodiversity studies the Biologia Centralia Americana Centennial. 	
        
BCA Digital EditionAbout the BCAProject StatusProject 
BackgroundPartnersKey ContributorsResources
Smithsonian Institution Libraries 	The Natural History Museum 
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
This project was partially funded by
the Atherton Seidell Endowment Fund of the Smithsonian Institution.


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Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:37:40 -0500
From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: dreamtime@yahoogroups.com

this is utterly amazing...

Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana

http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/explore.cfm

Between 1879 and 1915, two editors published a series they called
Biología Centrali-Americana, a catalog of the plants and animals of
Mexico and Central America. With over 50,000 descriptions and 18,000
images, this astonishing work "contained nearly everything known" of
the region's biodiversity at the time of its publication. Did we
mention it weighed in at 63 volumes? Only eight libraries hold the
entire set, and, some time ago, it slipped out of print. However, The
Smithsonian and London's Natural History Museum (among others) have
been hard at work to rectify that sad state of affairs. Over the past
years, they've uploaded much of the series' biological volumes to the
Web. Because of their labors, we can now spend all the time we want
hanging out with the mammals, swimming with the fishes, and sniffing
the flowers of turn-of-the-century Mesoamerica.