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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Bernard Lowy (1916–1992) papers
This collection includes correspondence, scientific articles, lecture notes and miscellaneous documents. Lowy's correspondence with R. Gordon Wasson (1898–1986) is one of the many highlights.
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The glass lantern slide collection and accompanying lecture by Mrs. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt
This collection consists of 168 hand-colored glass lantern slides and the typed copy of the lecture written by Rachel Hunt describing the slides' contents. The slides depict gardens and are labelled with owners and often locations.
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To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding
17 March–30 June 2026Building on the words of Emily Dickinson, "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee," our spring exhibition explores how humanity came to understand one of nature's most essential relationships: the intricate partnership between plants and their pollinators.
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