Hunt Institute: Databases

x Hunt Institute: Databases

Databases

The Institute is in the process of formatting for the Web existing databases of the information contained in its collections and publications. Through the databases, we hope to offer the global community greater access to our information. Please note that the database introductions contain descriptions of the database fields and valuable search tips.

Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838–1911) and his assistant Filemon Lozano (ca.1910) and Pringle with his herbarium (1911), in the south wing of the top floor of Williams Science Hall at the University of Vermont. Photographs by B. F. Lutman. The original glass negatives are in the Department of Botany at the University of Vermont. HI Archives portrait nos. 4 and 5.

Please note that I have upgraded the Institute's Web server and the database software. You will find that the format of the Search and Result pages is different. If you experience any difficulty using any of the databases please email me. This does not apply to BPH Online or the Catalogue of the Hunt Institute's Library.

Web Site Manager
Frank A. Reynolds
fr0c@andrew.cmu.edu

BPH Online

BPH Online is a fully indexed and searchable database documenting (as comprehensively as possible) periodicals published between 1665 and the present, which routinely address the plant sciences. BPH Online is composed of the datasets used to create the print editions of Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum, its supplement, and BPH-2. BHP Online is essentially a Web-based version of BPH-2, with some corrections, and searching and browsing options intended to make it more interrogable. The scope of the database encompasses the larger disciplines of botanical literature (agriculture, agronomy, bacteriology, biology, ecology, floriculture, forestry, fruit growing, genetics and plant breeding, geography, horticulture, hydrobiology and limnology, microbiology and microscopy, palaeontology, pharmacology and pharmacognosy, plant pathology and vegetable crops), and includes over 33,000 title entries. BPH Online is a living document that will be updated and revised continually.

Please note: BPH Online operates using the supplied buttons for all functions.

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Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute

The collection of botanical art and illustration in the Department of Art at the Hunt Institute.

Catalogue of the Hunt Institute's Library

Cameo, the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' online catalogue, contains records from all of the Carnegie Mellon campus libraries, including those of Hunt Institute, and can be accessed at http://cameo.library.cmu.edu. In Cameo, items tagged with HIBD indicate that the item is in the Institute's Library. Items tagged HUNT are in Carnegie Mellon's Hunt Library.

Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project

Originally published as the Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project (2001), the database covers a high proportion of the total complement of structures, characters, and character states pertinent to detailed conventional description of the morphology and higher-level anatomy of plants other than algae. The database contains 2,627 terms with their synonyms, categories, limitations and definitions, and can be searched by one or more of these fields.

Comprehensive Scheme for Standardized Abbreviation of Usable Plant-Family Names and Type-Based Suprafamilial Names

This database lists a scheme of four-character abbreviations for all properly usable plant-family names known to have been published to date, and of two-character rank suffixes for coordinated abbreviation of type-based names at standard suprafamilial ranks.

Index to Binomials Cited in the First Edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum

This index lists the binomials cited in the first edition of Carolus Linnaeus' Species Plantarum.

The database contains the following fields:

Genus
Epithet
Page Number

Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations

Originally published as part of the Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations together with a Synoptic Bibliography of the Dissertations and a Concordance for Selected Editions (1999), the database of the Index to Scientific Names is a reference resource on these dissertations and the scientific names that appear in them.

See our Original Linnaean Dissertations database below.

Original Linnaean Dissertations

Originally published as part of the Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations together with a Synoptic Bibliography of the Dissertations and a Concordance for Selected Editions.

The database includes:

The Lidén number
Respondent
Title
Date of defense
Pagination
Short title
Lidén title
Soulsby title
Drake title
Notes

The Lidén, Soulsby and Drake information refers to published reference works that contain bibliographic information about the Linnaean dissertations.

The original dissertations have been scanned and converted to PDF files. For higher resolution 300 dpi JPEG images of these dissertations, please contact: Charlotte A. Tancin at ctancin@cmu.edu

Register of Original Botanical Art

Search By Artist
Search By Atwork
Search By Institution

This is an unfinished guide to the location of mostly public collections of original botanical paintings and drawings from any time period done in traditional media such as watercolor, pastel, ink or pencil. The database contains information about scientific illustrations of plants and artworks that accurately depict plants as their main subjects and that may be of taxonomic importance.

I am in the process of converting the ROBA database to the new database software. You may experience some formatting problems, which I am endeavoring to correct.

Web Site Manager
Frank A. Reynolds
fr0c@andrew.cmu.edu

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