BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

www.biolib.de - online : http://www.biolib.de/

A major collection of historical and classical books on biology and natural history. Most of the works are in German but it includes several with fine illustrations. If you're looking for a specific work, follow the "Authors" link; otherwise "Categories" is a useful starting point.

You can browse on-line or, in some cases, download the entire work as Acrobat (PDF) files.

The site is in German and English. The following translations may help:

hohe	Auflösung	high	resolution
neidrige	Auflösung	low	resolution
Tafeln	Plates

The more useful items include:

Reitter,

Edmund

1908-11

(Beetles)

Fauna

Germanica;

Die

Käfer

des

Deutsches

Reiches.

Vols

1-5

Ricken,

Adalbert

1915

(Toadstools)

Die

Blatterpilze

West,

G.S.

Carter,

1904-23

(Algae)

monograph

British

Desmidiaceae.

Vols

I-V.

Web site

http://www.biolib.de/

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

COLEOPTERA (beetles)	Identification	Superseded	Paintings of beetles.
AGARICOMYCETIDAE Locq., 1984 (a subclass of basidiomycetes)	Identification	Superseded	Paintings of fungi.
DESMIDIINEAE	Identification	Current

Related Publications

online version	West, W. & G.S. & Carter, N., 1904
online version	Ricken, A, 1915
online version and downloadable PDF's	Reitter, E, 1908