Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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Dedicated to the history of botany and serving the international scientific community through research and documentation since 1961.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined September 2020
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.
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Listen to WRCT interview with Roy and Janda ( https://t.co/Q0ENu9hQur).
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Carnegie Mellon Art students visit Institute ( https://t.co/pKEHXCOFJs).
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As part of Professor John Guy Petruzzi’s advanced studio “Field Notebook, Watercolor & Nature,” art students visited the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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Join the elite group of 1,255 artists in our International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration series. We’re seeking submissions for our 18th International ( https://t.co/oPRyhKSzw6), opening fall 2029. Submission deadline is 18 June 2028.
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Use our new Archives Text Discovery Platform ( https://t.co/niScQAv78m) to perform full-text searches of the 77,000+ pages of our digitized Archives collections, including typed, printed and, most notably, handwritten documents.
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If you’re ready to take us on a new journey in the pages of our journal of botanical history, check out the topics and submission guidelines available on the Huntia ( https://t.co/oBPFLDfnvF) page and our call for papers about botanical artist John Tyley ( https://t.co/vqTQVUH2Uj).
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Williams uncovers the true identity and life story of “Dr. Lippold,” a man known mainly as a name on herbarium specimens. Don your deerstalker for this issue, the game is afoot!
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In the 21(2) Huntia ( https://t.co/kpYsS1eMla) we travel the world solving bibliographic and botanical mysteries. R. B. Williams unravels bibliographic complexities in J. C. Loudon’s The Gardener’s Magazine.
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Librarian Charlotte A. Tancin has retired after 41 years at the Hunt Institute. Effective 30 September she will be an adjunct research scholar at the Institute. We wish her well and thank her for everything she has done for the Institute and the Library over those years.
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Join us today (5–7 p.m.) for the opening reception of The Art and Science of Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero( https://t.co/bVZTnxy9ZD). At 5:30 p.m. our archivist will introduce the exhibition. The reception is free and open to the public.
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Join us Tuesday, 16 September (5–7 p.m.) for the opening reception of The Art and Science of Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero ( https://t.co/bVZTnxxCa5). At 5:30 p.m. our archivist will introduce the exhibition. The reception is free and open to the public.
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With heavy heart we report that Bibliographer/Data Curator Linda White left us at the end of July. Her husband, who is in the military, was transferred to another state. In recognition of the deep connection we have forged, we have named White an adjunct research scholar.
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If you’re ready to take us on a new journey in the pages of our journal of botanical history, check out the topics and submission guidelines available on the Huntia ( https://t.co/oBPFLDePG7) page and our call for papers ( https://t.co/vqTQVUGv4L) about botanical artist John Tyley.
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In Huntia ( https://t.co/cX3Tp8cFzN) Ronald Petersen takes us back to 1924 and the founding of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and the Tropical Plant Research Foundation. Drop the needle on Gershwin, grab a drink permissible during Prohibition and enjoy the read.
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Join us for the second part of the lobby display, “Bibliographia Huntiana: Visionary project or Institute albatross,” as we chart a course through our past and count down to the launch of our future.
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On 27 June 2025 Curator of Art Lydia Rosenberg taught a three-hour workshop on botanical documentation to high school students who were participating in the College of Fine Arts’ Pre-College summer program at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Botanical Article Bibliographic Records database ( https://t.co/8uL7jsGvU6) enhances access to periodical literature from Bibliographia Huntiana project. Built on decades of collaborative work, the database has detailed records of botanical articles published from 1730 to 1840.
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Lichen gathering under a strawberry moon
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We have Web pages under Carnegie Mellon’s Annual Giving umbrella. Visit our Sponsorship program ( https://t.co/o7XjciDViY) page and follow the links for easy donation via credit card, Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. We appreciate your support.
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Hunt Institute Director T. D. Jacobsen wrote the foreword for Secrets of Trees: History, Ecology and Botany Revealed through Drawing by botanical artist Pamela Taylor. The book was published in April 2025 by Two Rivers Press ( https://t.co/vGTGVSZ31b).
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Pamela Taylor is a fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists, a founder member of the Association of Botanical Artists and a fellow of the Linnaean Society. This book: Showcases Pamela Taylor’s ex…
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