Departments

The Institute's various collections are curated by our four programmatic departments: Archives, Art, Bibliography and the Library. The Archives includes 29,000+ individual and group portraits, 2,000+ autograph letters and manuscripts, and other materials by and about botanists and others working in the plant sciences. The Art department holdings include 29,270 original paintings (mostly 20th-century watercolors), drawings and original prints dating from the Renaissance to the present. The Bibliography department identifies, locates and examines the literature of the plant sciences to make records of essential information from which bibliographical tools can be created and published. The Library collection features 30,150 book and serial titles that date from the late 1400s and focus on the development of botany as a science and includes modern taxonomic monographs, floristic works and serial titles in the plant sciences.