Hunt Institute: About the Institute

Departments	The Institute's collections are curated by our four programmatic departments: The Archives includes 25,000 portraits, 2,000 autograph letters, and manuscripts by and about botanists and others working in the plant sciences. The Art department holdings include over 30,000 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 29,000 books, and botanical publications 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.
FNA	Participation in the Flora of North America (FNA) project is an integral part of the Institute's long-term research programs. Initiated by Hunt Institute and the Missouri Botanical Garden this collaborative endeavor is has been undertaken by a consortium of 30 institutions and hundreds of botanists in the United States and Canada.
History	As an international center for bibliographical research and service in the interests of botany and horticulture we where dedicated in 1961 as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library. Our activities had so diversified that our name was changed in 1971 to Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. The following links review our heritage and history. History Mrs. Hunt Reading Room Bookbinding Career Hunt Catalogue Past Exhibitions
Exhibitions	The Institute stages exhibitions of works in its collections and exhibitions of works from other institutions and private collections. Every three years it exhibits the International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration. It also has online exhibitions of past gallery exhibitions or published directly on the Web. Exhibitions International Series Online Exhibitions Travel Exhibitions
Services	Through its services the Institute remains committed to making its collections available and accessible to the scientific and scholarly communities, publishers, businesses, and the interested public. Services Service Charges Associate Membership Other Resources Lawrence Award
Publications	Publications Bulletin CD ROM Collection Catalogues Directories Exhibition Catalogues Huntia Other Publications Posters Reference Works
General Information	Home Directions News Organization & Staff
Databases	Databases Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute Catalogue of the Hunt Institute's Library Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project Comprehensive Scheme for Standardized Abbreviation of Useable Plant-Family Names and Type-Based Suprafamilial Names Index to Binomials Cited in the First Edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations Original Linnaean Dissertations Register of Original Botanical Art

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