Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, February 7, 2007

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal The Rectification of Names

3. Our first thought: BiodiversityHeritageLibrary.org

5. Since we would be covering more than botany, the obvious choice was: ZoBo.org Maria Sibylla Merian Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium , [1705]

6. BoZo.org Or we could give plants precedence:

7. Maybe TWO portals were needed: Botanicus.org Adam Lonicer Kreuterbuch: künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken … , 1582

8. Faunicus.org Reginald Pocock Biologia Centrali-Americana Chilopoda and Diplopoda , 1910

9. The Wine Advisory Board The California Way 1950 Omnivoricus.org

10. NotDeadThings.org Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808

11. Extinctionary.org Othniel Charles Marsh The dinosaurs of North America , 1896

13. Or inspired by the All Species Foundation or Species 2000: Omnibiosis.org Vitalis.org Allogy.org Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz Beschreibung mehrerer neuer oder wenig gekannter Arten des Geschlechtes Acanthurus, im stillen Ocean … 1834

16. Or more of a 18 th century library LibraryofNaturalCuriosities.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

17. But in German … WunderkammerBibliothekKatalogDerLebendenSachen.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

18. So we’d better stick with English: CardCatalogofLife.org Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey Reports on the fishes, reptiles and birds of Massachusetts , 1839

19. … and make allowances: CardCatalog(ue)ofLife.org Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Our reptiles and batrachians; … indigenous to Great Britain , 1893

20. Or perhaps just stay enigmatic … 42.museum Antonín Frič Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine… 1893-

21. Suggestions????