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Twenty one materials on natural history owned by the Biological Science Library, the Faculty of Science have been released. These are rare materials that cannot be found elsewhere, including fine botanical illustrations and manuscript research records.
 

▼The Age of Natural History
https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/nat-hist

Surveys of Japanese Plant specimens in several European Herbaria by G. Koidzumi

• Plantae Japonicae Thunbergianae (RB00031713)
• Plantae Japonicae Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi (RB00031841)
• Revisio Plantarum Japonicarum Musei Parisiensis (RB00031842)
• 在蘭佛日本植物範型考索引 (RB00031843)
• The revisions of the type specimens of Japanese plants preserved in the various herbariums of Europa and America (RB00031844)

Original drawings by T. Yamada for "Trees and shrubs indigenous in Japan proper, vol. 3" (searchable)

• 大日本樹木誌 巻之三 (RB00031714)

Natural History and Taxonomy related Books

• Flora Sibirica, sive historia plantarum Sibiriae, Tomus 1 (RB00031715)
• Fundamenta agrostographiae (RB00031716)
• Historiae Naturalis de Arboribus et Plantis (RB00031717)
• 壇朝顔通 (RB00031718)
• llustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order Camellieae, and of the varieties of Camellia japonica, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain (RB00031719)
• llustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere (RB00031720)
• Vierundzwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten von Kustenlandern und Inseln des Stillen Oceans (RB00031721)
• Hymenophyllaceae Javanicae; sive descriptio Hymenophyllacearum archipelagi Indici, Iconibus illustrata (RB00031722)
• A history of the British hydroid zoophytes. Vol. II.―Plates (RB00031723)
• Monographie der Medusen, Theil 2 (RB00031724)
• Hooker's Icones plantarum; or, figures with descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the Kew Herbarium. Fourth series. vol. 8 (RB00031725)
• Kunstformen der Natur, Zweite, versurzte Auflage in 30 Tafeln (RB00031726)
• A Monograph of the Snakes of Japan (RB00031727)
• 原色版 日本蛇類圖譜（和文テキスト）・（図版） (RB00031728)
• 原色版 日本蛇類圖説 (RB00031729)
   

The restoration and digitization of these rare materials were funded by the Global COE program "Formation of a strategic base for biodiversity and evolutionary research" from 2010 to 2012 and the digital data was publicized in the "Biological Science Library Digital Archives" website operated by the Faculty of Science. The data has this time been transferred to Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, a university-wide platform to make digitized rare materials open access.

As of October 9, 2020, the Digital Archive provides 1,372,575 images of 17,663 titles.

Left & center: Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere (RB00031720)
Right: 『大日本樹木誌 巻之三』 (RB00031714)

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Medical Library will be closed on Oct. 14th due to the Faculty of Medicine’s Anatomy Ceremony.
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Closed：Wednesday, 14 October, 2020

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※Recommendation form closed. Thank you for a lot of eBooks recommendations. (Oct. 19, 2020)

※Added about eBooks ineligible for recommendation. (Sep. 15, 2020)

Due to the current situation regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), most courses in the second semester of AY 2020 will continue to be provided online. The Library Network provides students with eBooks for home study. To help us provide a wider range of eBooks, we would like to ask for your recommendations of eBooks that you think would be useful for students.

Persons eligible to make recommendations

All Kyoto University faculty members (Including part-time lecturers)

eBooks eligible for recommendation

・eBooks that will be used for liberal arts and sciences (ILAS) courses in AY 2020, or that will be useful for students taking those courses.

・eBooks that will be used in undergraduate courses in AY 2020, or that will be useful for students taking those courses.

・eBooks that would be useful for undergraduate students studying at home.

eBooks ineligible for recommendation

・Complete works, journals (including back numbers), newspapers

・Study guide, workbooks, self-help books and books of hobbies and practical use

・eBooks that extra costs will be charged next year (ex: contract maintenance fee, platform usage fee) 

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Deadline for recommendations

Finished. Thank you for a lot of eBooks recommendations. October 16, 2020 

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・We may not be able to purchase all of your recommendations due budget limitations and order of purchasing priority.

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Contact

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