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Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana
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. (in Biology) |
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