News
37(2) Bulletin published
13 November 2026
In this issue of the Bulletin we feature our General Autograph Collection, online and fully accessible after 65 years. Director T. D. Jacobsen and Assistant Director/Principal Data Curator J. Dustin Williams explain the importance of the collection while Archival Assistant Chad Denton provides background on a selection of letters from American and French botanists. Computational/Archival Assistant Christi Thomas details the activities of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in 1975 and 1976. Publication and Marketing Manager Scarlett T. Townsend notes the sad passing of Charlotte A. Tancin, publishes another volume of Huntia and publicizes our spring exhibition, Botanical Watercolors of John Tyley: Free Man of Color in a Colonial World, and forthcoming issue of Huntia devoted to new scholarship about the artist. We thank our 2026 Sponsors for supporting our mission and programs and strengthening our collections.
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
