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Museums and Botanical Gardens


America (North, South, Central)

American Museum of Natural History (NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE)
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (gopher)
Bishop Museum, Hawaii (gopher)
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Chicago Academy of Sciences - Nature Museum
Cornell University Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server.
Field Museum of Natural History
Harvard University Herbaria (gopher)
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (gopher)
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden (gopher)
New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Natural History (gopher)
Slater Museum of Natural History (gopher)
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution, Gem & Mineral Collection
University of California Museum of Paleontology

Australia

Australian National Botanical Gardens

Europe

The Hunterian Museum has information on its exhibitions and dinosaurs.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Museums Documentation Association (MDA)
Museum of Garden History
Natural History Museum, Berne
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Natural History Museum, Stockholm
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Science Museum, London


Exhibitions

Dinosaur Exhibit by Honolulu Community College.
DNA to Dinosaurs with animations and sound by the Field Museum.
Hall of Dinosaurs at Berkeley CA.
In Search of Giant Squid. Online exhibition from the National Museum of Natural History.
Jurassic Reef Park. Explore reefs from prehistoric times.
Ocean Planet Online. The Smithsonian Institution's exhibition celebrating the spectacular diversity of the oceans.

Life Sciences

Biodiversity and its value, Guide to the Convention on Biological Diversity and Environmental Acronyms. Arranged by The Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN), at the Australian Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories.
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server links to taxonomic information, collections catalogues and a biological image archive organised by Cornell University.
Biodiversity around the World
Biological Journals. On-line biology and medical journals from Harvard University.
Biologists' addresses.
Biology Servers Listing of Internet resources for biologists.
BIOSCI/Bionet
Biosciences sources. organised by from Harvard University.
Botany-related URLs A very comprehensive collection of resources for botanists, from the Finnish Museum of Natural History.
BRASS. The University of Manchester's School of Biological Science Bioinformatics Resource for Algorithms, Software and Services.
British Antarctic Survey Part of the Natural Environment Research Centre.
Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall Includes many links to related sites.
Centre for Population Biology Studies the ecological processes in plant and animal populations.
CITES UK from the Global Wildlife Division of the Department of the Environment.
CSUBIOWEB at the California State University Biological Sciences Web Server offers information on a variety of bioscience topics.
Dictionary of Cell Biology. Academic Press.
Environmental Organisation WebDirectory. Details of over 8,000 environmental organisations.
Entomology. Links listed by Colorado State University to collections, images and job opportunities.
The EnviroWeb . A project of the Envirolink Network.
ERIN : Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
European Centre for Nature Conservation
Friends of the Earth
GDB Human Genome Database mirror at UK Human Genome Mapping Project
Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange (GENIE) Search tool for metadata (data about data) relevant to global environmental research.
Greenpeace Information Page. From Canada.
Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)
Hyperactive Molecules . Department of Chemistry at Imperial College.
Icelandic Marine Research Institute and Dept. of Fisheries. This include a fish database and a dictionary of marine life.
INBio, Costa Rica
JASON Project
International Society of Biometeorology
Natural Environment Research Council
Ohio State University Insect Collection
Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow
Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Navigator for the Internet. From the University of Arizona, a system designed to link biological information.
University of Washington Fish Collection
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency environmental information and programmes.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Zoological Record

Earth Science

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists.
Association of Polish Geomorphologists.
British Geological Survey and their library OPAC.
European Information Server of Earth Sciences
Geological Time Machine at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Geoscience Information Society
Hadrosaurus foulkii, the World's first dinosaur skeleton. Illustrated description of the National Historic Landmark in New Jersey.
Hidden Landscape Review of Richard Fortey's book on geology.
International Organisation of Palaeobotany, University of East London.
Malacology / Invertebrate Palaeontology Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Gopher).
Mass Extinction Simulation
Open University Department of Earth Sciences.
Paleontological Society
Volcano World
World Wide Earthquake Locator

Natural History Societies

Mammal Society

Geographic Information Systems

University of Edinburgh
United States Geological Survey

Astronomy and Space

Earth Viewer
Kennedy Space Center, NASA
The Nine Planets


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