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Help us add machine tags to improve the discoverability of images from the bhl collection. The biodiversity heritage library bhl, the digitization component of the encyclopedia of life, is a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. The biodiversity heritage library improves research methodology by. Scientific illustrations and photographic plates from the bhl can be used to illustrate species pages on wikipedia. This book is a printed edition of the special issue biodiversity of vegetable crops, a living heritage that was published in agriculture download pdf add this book to my library. The smithsonian libraries is proud to be one of the founding members of the bhl a consortium of major natural history, botanical, and research libraries.
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