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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Francesca Anderson drawings
The Art Department has 36 pen-and-ink drawings by Anderson (1946–), an American artist who specializes in illustrations of botanical and other natural history subjects.
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Patricia Margaret Calhoun Watson Rennie artworks
The Art Department has 115 artworks created by Rennie (1931–), including four watercolor paintings that were included in our Contemporary Botanical Art and Illustration (1st International) in 1964.
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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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