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Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

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Alphabetum Botanicum closing soon

3 December 2018

There are only two weeks left to see Alphabetum Botanicum. Stop by the Institute through 14 December to see this exhibition of Kandis Vermeer Phillips' illuminated letters paired with a botanical artwork from the Institute's collection to create a literal or amusing relationship between the two.

About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, 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.

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Scarlett T. Townsend
412-268-7304
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