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To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding opening reception
10 March 2026
Join us Tuesday, 17 March (5:00–7:00 p.m.) for the opening reception of our spring exhibition, To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding. Through historical specimens, illustrations and writings, To Make a Prairie traces the evolution of knowledge about plant reproduction from anecdotal observation to scientific fact and examines how those discoveries were shared, debated and accepted by the global community. At 5:30 p.m. in the gallery the curators will introduce the exhibition. The reception is free and open to the public.
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<p>Digitalis purpurea, w [?] Apis formido. Foxglove and bumble-bee [<em>Digitalis</em> Linnaeus, Plantaginaceae], watercolor on vellum by James Bolton (ca.1735–1799), 1793, 26 × 18 cm, HI Art accession no. 0847.08, gift of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt.</p>](/admin/uploads/hibd-prairie-bolton.jpg)
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.
Media Contact:
Scarlett T. Townsend
412-268-7304
st19@andrew.cmu.edu
