Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. Learn more
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Sponsorship Program
You can help to strengthen our collections and programs through monetary and material gifts. Monetary gifts are applied to our gift fund to support general operations, to the endowment generously established by the Roy A. Hunt Foundation to provide ongoing support for Hunt Institute, to the Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Art Acquisition Fund, to the T. D. Jacobsen Endowed Acquisition Fund or to the Ronald L. Stuckey Endowment for the Preservation of Botanical History. Material gifts are added to the collections in our Archives, Art Department, Bibliography Department and Library.
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Bookbindings by Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt
This finding aid to Rachel's bookbindings in the Hunt Institute collection includes photographs.
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The Art and Science of Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero
16 September–17 December 2025This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero, Costa Rican botanist, artist and educator.
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