News
37(1) Bulletin published
18 May 2026
In this issue of the Bulletin Senior Curator of Art Carrie Roy covers To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding as well as recent gifts and purchases. Computational/Archival Assistant Christi Thomas details a disagreement between Bernard Lowy and R. Gordon Wasson; debuts Rachel Hunt's glass lantern slide collection and accompanying lecture; and offers selections from the William Winfield Ray collection of 20th-century botanists' correspondence and other materials. Publication and Marketing Manager Scarlett T. Townsend publishes another volume of Huntia and celebrates the anniversary of our country with 250 Years of Botany in America.
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
