Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

HIBD is named for Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt.{{cite web|title=Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation|url=http://www.huntbotanical.org/about/?4|website=www.huntbotanical.org|access-date=2020-01-04|archive-date=2020-06-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611154712/https://www.huntbotanical.org/about/?4|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=The Bookbinding Career of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation|url=http://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?87|website=www.huntbotanical.org}}{{cite web|title=Data|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/15.4Summer2004/15.4.Johnsen.pdf|access-date=2020-02-10|publisher=www.morrissociety.org|archive-date=2020-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612235048/http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/15.4Summer2004/15.4.Johnsen.pdf|url-status=dead}} She donated a collection of botanical books to the university to create HIBD. An annual monetary award is given in her honor by the institute.{{cite web|title=Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Scholarship | Nationality Rooms | University of Pittsburgh|url=https://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/content/rachel-mcmasters-miller-hunt-scholarship|website=www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu|access-date=2020-01-04|archive-date=2019-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222232916/http://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/content/rachel-mcmasters-miller-hunt-scholarship|url-status=dead}}

HIBD was dedicated October 10, 1961.{{cite web|title=The Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library: Its Collections, Program & Staff | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation|url=http://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?127|website=www.huntbotanical.org|access-date=2020-01-04|archive-date=2019-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803210758/http://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?127|url-status=live}} George H. M. Lawrence was the founding director.{{cite web|title=Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD) -- Lawrence Memorial Award | Research Funding|url=https://researchfunding.duke.edu/hunt-institute-botanical-documentation-hibd-lawrence-memorial-award|website=researchfunding.duke.edu}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1970, Gilbert Daniels, became the second director.{{cite web |title=George H. M. Lawrence Papers, 1850–1982 |url=https://www.riamco.org/render?eadid=US-RUn-msg49&view=inventory#c304 |website=www.riamco.org |access-date=14 July 2021}} T. D. Jacobsen succeeded Robert Kiger as director in 2019.{{cite web|title=T. D. Jacobsen named director of Carnegie Mellon University's Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - The Tartan|url=http://thetartan.org/2016/8/19/news/hunt-institute|website=thetartan.org|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2021-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206043455/https://thetartan.org/2016/8/19/news/hunt-institute|url-status=live}}

HIBD is an institution of international bibliographical research in the fields of botany, horticulture, and plant science history. It has a research library with over 30,000 works and art holdings. It includes art and bibliography departments.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

HIBD is better known internationally than in the U.S.{{cite web|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2019/11/21/Hunt-Institute-for-Botanical-Documentation-Carnegie-Mellon-University/stories/201909300053|title=#Essentially Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute exhibits natural beauty in a quiet space|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2019-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191122131737/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2019/11/21/Hunt-Institute-for-Botanical-Documentation-Carnegie-Mellon-University/stories/201909300053|url-status=live}} It has a collection of botanical paintings (many of them watercolors), drawings, and prints dating from the Renaissance to contemporary works. Its library has books from an equally expansive time frame.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

HIBD hosts public exhibitions, including the triennial International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration since 1964. That exhibition coincides with the educational conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists in Pittsburgh.

• Botanico-Periodicum-Huntanium (first started in 1968, Sept 2004 BPH2 began){{cite journal |last1=Schmid |first1=Rudolf |title=Reviews and Notices of Publications |journal=Taxon |date=November 2004 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=1117–1126|doi=10.1002/tax.534003 |doi-access=free }}
• Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
• Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt
• Huntia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. In continuous publication since 1964, this journal is the institute's scholarly journal of botanical history. The journal is published irregularly in one or more numbers per volume of approximately 200 pages by Hunt Institute. Starting with volume 17, the journal is now only published online and in color.{{cite web |title=Huntia. |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vwgj93bq |website=Wellcome Collection |access-date=15 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715180150/https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vwgj93bq |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Huntia {{!}} Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation |url=https://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/type.php?2 |website=www.huntbotanical.org |access-date=15 July 2021}}Elisabeth B. Davis and Diane Schmidt {{google books|mo7MBwZ5yDkC|Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical Sciences, 2nd Edit. (1996)|page=48}}

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