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Out-of-Print Publications

Catalogue of Portraits of Naturalists, Mostly Botanists, in the Collections of the Hunt Institute, The Linnean Society of London and the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève, parts 1–3 (Out of Print)

Compiled by Michael T. Stieber, Anita L. Karg, Sharon Tomasic, Margot Walker, Gavin D. R. Bridson, Hervé M. Burdet, Marie-Martine Chautems and Tina Moruzzi-Bayo. 1987–1999. ISBN 0-913196-50-9.

 Part 1. Group Portraits. 1987. xi, 93 pp.; 8 1/2 x 11"; 1 lb. Paper cover.
 Part 2. Portraits of Individuals, A–D. 1988. 294 pp.; 8 1/2 x 11"; 2 lbs. Paper cover.
 Part 3. Portraits of Individuals, E–H. 1999. xi, 230 pp.; 8 1/2 x 11"; 2 lbs. Paper cover.


Updating and expanding upon the information published in the Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection (1972), part 1 included over 650 group portraits indexed by the name of each known individual in the portraits.

 Parts 2 and 3 included detailed information on persons whose surnames began with the letters A–H who are represented in the portrait collections and included places and years of birth and death, as well as their professions and/or botanical or biological specialties.

 (The Hunt Institute information from this catalogue has been updated and included in the Register of Botanical Biography and Iconography database.)

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