Dedicated to the history of botany and serving the international scientific community through research and documentation since 1961.
Pittsburgh, PA
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4 Jan. 2022: Thank you for following along as Rachel built the Hunt Botanical Library. We hope you enjoyed the journey. Now we’re going to explore how we have expanded Rachel’s core collections into the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
In the 22(2) Huntia (huntbotanical.org/publicatio…) previous authors expand upon their research while first-time authors take us on new adventures. In the “History of Flora Arabia explorations” Osama Sayed focuses on notable scholars and collectors from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
In “History of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (1999–2024)” Allan D. Nelson examines the history of BRIT as it embarks on a new phase of development through a partnership with the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.
In “Further perspectives on W. T. Gillis’ contributions to a Bahama flora, with a recognition to Jack Fisher” Lee B. Kass provides an addendum to Kass and Eshbaugh from 20(1) Huntia (huntbotanical.org/publicatio…).
At the now Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation we’re pleased to celebrate our 65th anniversary of making Rachel Hunt’s botanical collection accessible to the public while continuing to serve the international scientific community through research and documentation.
Now use our new Archives Text Discovery Platform (huntbotanical.org/databases/…) to perform semantic searches of the 190,000+ pages and 40 million+ words of our digitized Archives collections by meaning, including typed, printed and handwritten documents.
Due to an unforeseen staffing shortage, we will be open to the public only by appointment for the foreseeable future. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us (huntbotanical.org/contact/) to schedule an appointment.
This does prematurely end our 250 Years of Botany in America celebration. If you missed seeing the current lobby display of Rachel’s glass lantern slides (huntbotanical.org/archives/d…), you can view the entire collection on our Web site.
Leslie Shaver (administrative assistant, 2023–2026) has left to pursue other opportunities. We wish her well.
Happy Bastille Day! Today we pause in our 250th celebration to honor the country that gave us our shining beacon of liberty. See the art, books, letters and manuscripts by French botanists and artists in our collections (huntbotanical.org/news/show.…).
New finding aid added for our General Autograph Collection (GAC) (huntbotanical.org/archives/d…). It contains over 1,700 handwritten letters from the 17th to the 20th century mostly by American and European botanists. It is available as PDFs for downloading.
We’re still excited about slime mold in the morning, but we are faintly worried that it might be developing a taste for bauxite 😀
Use our new Archives Text Discovery Platform (huntbotanical.org/databases/…) to perform full-text searches of the 190,000+ pages and 4 million+ searchable words of our digitized Archives collections, including typed, printed and, most notably, handwritten documents.
As we continue to celebrate the history of botany in America for the 250th anniversary of our country, this month we feature our founder, Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, boldly exploring the gardens of Pittsburgh through glass lantern slides and a lecture (huntbotanical.org/news/show.…).
New finding aid added for the Bernard Lowy (1916–1992) papers (huntbotanical.org/archives/d…). It includes correspondence, scientific articles, lecture notes and miscellaneous documents available as PDFs for downloading.
