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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Sibthorp family papers
This collection includes correspondence, accounts and related miscellany. Also found here are documents, including Humphrey Sibthorp's commission (1794) as colonel in the army, signed by King George III of England, and Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp's commission as captain in the Royal North Lincoln Militia (1847). These items are nonbotanical, and there is nothing of famous botanists Humphrey or John Sibthorp.
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Index to Binomials Cited in the First Edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum
The records in the database include fields for Genus, Epithet and Page Number. The Genus and Epithet are searchable fields.
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Drawings for Smith’s Cryptogamic Botany
The Art Department has 509 ink drawings by Gilbert M. Smith and other artists for his 1938 and 1955 editions.
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