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Happy 65th anniversary, Hunt Institute!
9 October 2026
The Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library was dedicated on 10 October 1961. At the now Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation we're pleased to celebrate our 65th anniversary of making Rachel Hunt's botanical collection accessible to the public while continuing to serve the international scientific community through research and documentation. We're eagerly looking forward to our next 65 years.
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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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