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Director Jacobsen contributes foreword
3 June 2025
Hunt Institute Director T. D. Jacobsen (Ph.D., Plant Systematics, Washington State University) wrote the foreword for Secrets of Trees: History, Ecology and Botany Revealed through Drawing by botanical artist Pamela Taylor (Ph.D., Plant Ecology, Cambridge University). The book was published in April 2025 by Two Rivers Press. The original artwork used for the cover of Secrets of Trees was featured in our 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration in 2024 and is in our Art collection as a gift of the artist. (See the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration database and the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute database.)
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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