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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Strandell Collection of Linnaeana
Curated by the Library, the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana includes nearly all published works, in almost every known edition and translation, by the great Swedish naturalist-physician Carolus Linnaeus as well as works by a number of his students and a considerable amount of commentary about Linnaeus and his natural history students, as published up to the late 1960s.
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A Linnaean Keepsake
Issued to commemorate the opening of the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana, this book included a biography of Linnaeus, an account of Swedish Linnaean collections and an English translation of Linnaeus' Orbis eruditi [1741].
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Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes
Linnaeus devised comprehensive, consistent schemes for classifying and describing plants and animals and for assigning two-word scientific names to all species, thus laying the foundations of modern biological taxonomy. In this online exhibition pages of manuscripts, plant portraits, portraits of botanists and rare books from the Institute's Archives, Art Department and Library, including the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana, highlight the achievements of Linnaeus in the broader context of botany over two millennia.
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