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Snippets from the first two volumes of Scientific American magazine. Very little information available and what is is of a frivolous nature. Not for research. Site has not been updates since 1997.

This site compiles over 130 biographies of women scientists throughout the ages organized alphabetically, chronologically, and by discipline. A handful of images are also available, as is an extensive bibliography. Unfortunately most of the site has not been updated since 1999 and many of the off-site links are no longer valid.

The Aberdeen Bestiary, an exemplar of this genre of medieval zoology, has been scanned into this useful website. In addition to the scan of over 100 images and the accompanying text, the editors of this web site provide English translations of the Latin text and editorial comments to explain the mythology behind the various descriptions. Additionally, the site includes pages explaining the construction of the codex and the development of the site.

This website includes information about the museum and collections of the American Academy of Natural Sciences. An on-line exhibit about paleontologist and anatomist, Joseph Leidy, will interest historians of biology, natural science and zoology. The Society's database of 22 collections includes links to digital archives of Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Malacology, Ornithology, Rotifers, VIREO, Mollusk, and Orthopteroid Insects. Other collections have not been digitized, however, researchers will find information about how to physically access these materials.

This is a simple and plain search page hosted by a number of Italian universities and institutes. The aim of the project is to furnish science historians and other scholars with an instrument to research the correspondence of Italian scientists during the period between the Italian Risorgimento (mid 19th century) and the present. The service permits the user to research the letters and correspondence of Edoardo Amaldi, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Emanuele Paterna's Enrico Persico, Bruno Touschek and Vito Volterra. The data bank now contains about 54,000 items.

This site gives some brief information about the Australian Academy of Science and provides a description of manuscripts housed in the Academy's Basser Library. The site also contains an alphabetical index of the materials in the manuscript collection, which could be an important planning tool for researchers interested in taking a trip to the Library to do research with the papers first-hand. However, the actual manuscripts have not been made available online, so there is no historical information beyond the descriptions and index.