Online version of John James Audubon's Birds of America. It is from the 1840 edition of Audubon's complete seven volume text, and presents Audubon's images and original text descriptions. Bird species can be found listed alphabetically, or categorized by family.
Information on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers, including a searchable database for retrieving literature on Auchenorrhyncha.
On March 12, 1784, English theologian, geologist and eccentric palaeontologist William Buckland was born, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus.