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Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

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Four Archives’ collections added to Web site

11 October 2024

We have added finding aids for the Hunt Institute Archives' collections of Edward Angus Burt (1859–1939), Emilio Guinea López (1907–1985), Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831) and David Prain (1857–1944). The collections have been digitized and are available as PDFs for downloading.

About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, 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.

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Scarlett T. Townsend
412-268-7304
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