Natural History Museums, Collections and other Earth and Life Science Resources

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)

Natural History Museum, Berne

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Natural History Museum, Stockholm

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Science Museum, London

Interactive Exhibits

Dinosaur Exhibit by Honalulu Community College.

DNA to Dinosaurs with animations and sound by the Field Museum.

Hall of Dinosaurs at Berkeley CA.

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.

Biologist's addresses.

Biology Servers Listing of Internet resources for biologists

BIOSCI/Bionet

Biosciences sources organised by from Harvard University.

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.

Centre for Population Biology Studies the ecological processes in plant and animal populations.

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 8000 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

Friends of the Earth

GDB Human Genome Database mirror at UK Human Genome Mapping Project

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 marince life.

INBio, Costa Rica

JASON Project

International Society of Biometeorology

Natural Environment Research Council

Ohio State University Insect Collection

Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Navigator for the Internet. From the University of Arizona, a system designed to link biological information.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency environmental information and programmes.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Zoological Record

Earth Science

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists.

British Geological Survey and their library OPAC.

European Information Server of Earth Sciences

Geological Time Machine at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

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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