Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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Hunt Institute Archives Text Discovery Platform

Search a large and growing portion of our online collections, including handwritten documents.
PROTOTYPE

This prototype uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, including a vision-language model (VLM) capable of reading handwritten documents as well as typed and printed text, to create searchable transcriptions of digitized materials in the Hunt Institute Archives. This makes it possible to search the textual contents of individual pages, including material that may not be described in the archival catalog.

Use Keyword search for specific words, names, dates, scientific names, or phrases. Try Semantic search (experimental) to describe a topic, question, or kind of material when you do not know the exact wording used in the documents.

About the AI-generated transcriptions

The transcriptions are generated automatically from page images and may contain errors, especially with difficult handwriting, unusual names, multiple languages, image-quality problems, or complex layouts. They are intended primarily as a discovery aid rather than authoritative transcriptions.

Each result provides the generated transcription and links to the original digitized material and associated archival description so that readings can be checked against the source. The transcription workflow uses AI models run locally by the Hunt Institute.

About Keyword and Semantic search

Keyword search is the default and matches the wording in the transcriptions. Results contain all your terms. Use quotes for an exact phrase. Substring matching is supported, so aceae can find plant-family names ending in -aceae.

Semantic search (experimental) is useful when you know what kind of material you are looking for but do not know the words used in the documents. It ranks transcribed passages by similarity of meaning, so relevant results may not contain the exact words in your query.

Semantic queries can be broad research topics, descriptions of activities or relationships, or natural-language questions. For example:

Semantic search is not a chatbot: a question is used as a search query, and the system returns archival passages that appear conceptually related to it rather than generating an answer or summary. Short descriptions and ordinary research questions generally work better than lists of disconnected keywords. Quotation marks have no special meaning in Semantic mode. Cross-language matching may work in some cases, but it should not be treated as translation.

Keyword and Semantic search are complementary. Keyword search lets you require particular wording; Semantic search can surface differently worded passages about the same subject. Depending on the research question, trying both can reveal different useful material.

Open a result: use the prominent page-and-transcription link to see the metadata, PDF, and full transcription. Keyword-search terms are highlighted in the transcription.

Archives Collections Database (ArchivesSpace): the Collection, Item/Folder, and Digital Object links open the corresponding archival records. Collection-level dates describe the collection as a whole, not necessarily the specific item or page.

If a PDF does not load: on the detail page, use the Digital Object link, click “Go to file” in ArchivesSpace, and navigate to the page number shown here.

Current limitations
  • Automated transcriptions can contain missing or incorrect text or unintended repetition. Difficult handwriting, image quality, unusual layouts, and multiple languages can reduce accuracy. Always consult the original page image when an exact reading matters.
  • Semantic search remains experimental. Its rankings are an additional discovery aid, not a complete or definitive set of relevant results, and highly ranked pages can sometimes be only broadly related.
  • This is an active prototype. Search coverage, transcriptions, functionality, and the interface may continue to change as additional archival material is processed and the system is improved.

Semantic matches for “microscopy and photomicrography in botanical research”

Showing matches 101–120 among up to the top 200 ranked results.
Semantic results are ranked by similarity of meaning rather than exact wording, so relevant pages may use different language from your query. They are a discovery aid, not an exhaustive list of relevant pages.
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Digital Object: DO #4924 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx9FF6_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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Dr. Thomas P. Myers Page 2 I must say that I am far from knowledgeable of the total botanical problems of these plants and recognize that many more studies will have to be made. Sincerely, David J. Rogers Professor of Botany DJK/pam P.S. I've added two more reprints on M. that may interest you.
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Digital Object: DO #1524 · File: 212_Haas_Bx1FF3_r
Collection-level dates: 1906–1986
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… Biologist, Botanist 3 Have "First Papers" Born: 4/7/1882 University of Munich; Ph.D. Take part on Lectures in Botany at the University of Pennsylvania (Prof.Selfris and Prof.Stockbeck) Helper in the Kilmer Botanical Garden of the Philadelphia College for Pharmacy and Science in Philadelphia. Keep garden in good condition, collect plants and identify plants Drug plants (for scientific purpose) Philadelphia College for Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pa. Assistant Curator on a botanic museum 7 years an 4 months (Oct.1st 1929 until Feb. 15th 1937 at the Botanical Museum in Munich-Lymphenburg) No Collecting of pl …
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Digital Object: DO #1219 · File: 35_Scott_Bx4FFSpechtr
Collection-level dates: 1953–1963
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I had a short talk with Dr. Setzler when he lectured on Arnhem Land at Tulane University. The botanical volume ought to interest certain members of such Societies as the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and my paper would interest some members of the Phycological Society of America, so it would be in order for you to circulate the membership of those Societies. However, most of the specialists in my line will receive reprints from me or from Prescott. I suggest that you send the book for review to the American Inst. of Biological Sciences, and advertise it in the A.I.B.S. B …
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Digital Object: DO #3932 · File: 296_Lowy_Bx2FF26_r
Collection-level dates: 1949–1990
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Department of Botany LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE BATON ROUGE · LOUISIANA · 70803-1705 504/388-8485 12-VIII-1986 Mr. Thomas Trana Michigan State University Department of Botany & Plant Pathology East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1312 Dear Mr. Trana: I was not sure whether your collection of Dacryopinax elegans was all to be retained, so I have kept a small portion of it for the herbarium and returned the rest. It is quite typical macroscopically, and I have no doubt about its identity, but have not made a microscopic examination. SEM photos of D. elegans and D. spathularia would a …
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Digital Object: DO #5011 · File: 179_Langman_Bx1FF14_r
Collection-level dates: 1919–1980
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… has made the taken the evaluation even further: the enumeration, alphabeti- cally by authors, supplements in 156 quarto pages in fine print, a subject index modestly designated an index, which contains the botanical and native plant names, place and personal names and subject cue words from the various fields of botany. I believe that no user of the work will have any basis for using a sentence from the preliminary remarks: "The specialist tends rather to criticize than to praise", but rather will be generally received with appreciation. Langmann, Ida Kaplan: A selected guide to the literature on the flowering pl …
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Digital Object: DO #1265 · File: 53_Arber_Box4FF1r
Collection-level dates: 1886–1985
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Bern, 1924; als erweiterter Sonderdruck herausgegeben von P.Haupt, Bern, 1930); diese Arbeit macht die früheren einschlägigen Arbeiten überflüssig. Zur Geschichte der sogenannten Naturselbstdrucke vergleiche man A.Tiberghien: Phytotypie et Phytotypes. Notice sommaire, bibliographique et historique sur l'impression des plantes à l'aide des plantes elles-mêmes. (Bull.Soc.Royale de Bot.de Belgique, t.64, fasc.1; (1931), 81-91. Heute besitzt die Zentralbibliothek Zürich diesen gesamten noch vorhandenen botanischen Nachlass C.Gesners in Form von Photographien (Band 1) und Photocopien (Band 2). Der Geschichte der schwe …
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Digital Object: DO #5020 · File: 179_Langman_Bx1FF26_r
Collection-level dates: 1919–1980
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*Blumea 1934 to 1955 *Boletin de la Biblioteca Menendez y Pelayo 1919 to 1938 *Bonplandia 1853 to 1862 *Botanical Cabinet 1817 to 1833 *Botanical Gazette 1875 to 1957 *Botanical Leaflets 1950 to 1954 *Botanical Memoirs 1919 to 1925 *Botanical Register 1815 to 1847 *Botanical Review 1935 to 1957 *Botanische Abhandlungen 1922 to 1932 *Botanisch Jahrbucher 1880 to 1955 *Botanische Mitteilungen aus den tropen 1888 to 1901 *Botanische Zeitung 1843 to 1868 *Botanisk Tidskrift 1955 *Botaniska Notiser 1839 to 1953 *Breslau - K. Botanischen Garten - Arbeiten 1892 *Brittonia 1931 to 1957 *Bromeliad Society Bulletin 1951 to …
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Item/Folder: Letters 5, 1938–1939
Digital Object: DO #1092 · File: 16_Hermann_Bx1FF5r
Collection-level dates: 1934–1951
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… te. Revue Hort. (Paris) (8CR32) Foëx, E. L'oeuvre de Millardet et le cinquantenaire de la bouillie bordelaise. Revue Hort. 108: 89-93. illus., port. Mr.16, 1936. no.3. Rhodora (Boston) (450R34) Abbe, E. C. Botanical results of the Grenfell-Forbes northern Labrador expedition, 1931. Rhodora 38: 102-161. illus.(maps), pl.408-411. Ap. 1936. no.448. Baehni, C. Ipomoea heptaphylla in Georgia and Mexico. Rhodora 38: 164. Ap. 1936. no.448. Muenscher, W. C. The production of seed by Euphorbia cyparissias. Rhodora 38: 161-163. Ap. 1936. no.448. Riv. Biol. (Milan) (442.RB52) Carboni, D. & Alexandrie, A.V. Nuova ricerche su …
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Digital Object: DO #4124 · File: 224_Grummann_Bx1FF23_r
Collection-level dates: 1921–1974
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Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten der Universität Marburg 355 Marburg/Lahn, den 21.10.1964 Pilgrimstein 4 Fernruf 732402 (Botan. Institut) 732408 (Botan. Garten) Sehr geehrter Herr Dr.Grumann! Vielen Dank für die eingehende Kritik meiner Arbeit. Was die Überschrift anbetrifft, so ist Ihre Fassung ohne Zweifel logisch. Meine Fassung wählte ich rein aus psychologischen Gründen, um die Leute zum Lesen des Artikels zu veranlassen.-Ganz allgemein vermeide ich Strichpunkte bei der "eichensetzung. Dies wurde mir von meinem "germanistischen" Vater stets auf die Seele gebunden.-Vor"sowie" steht kein Komma (vgl.D …
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Digital Object: DO #4652 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx2FF13B_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PLANT GEOGRAPHY Anderson, E. 1936. The species problem in Iris. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 23: 457-509. Bauer, E. 1919. Einführung in die experimentelle Vererbungslehre. 3: u., 4: a. Berlin. Brown, Robert. 1814. General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis, 2: 533-613. London. Cain, Stanley A. 1940. Some observations on the concept of species senescence. Ecology 21: 213-215. Candolle, Alphonse De. 1855. Geographie botanique raisonnee. 2 vols. Paris. Clausen, Keok & Hiesey. 1940. Experimental studies on the nature of species. I. Effect of varied environments on we …
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Digital Object: DO #3718 · File: AD249_r
Collection-level dates: 1724–1848
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Digital Object: DO #1768 · File: 135_Friesner_Bx2FF1_r
Collection-level dates: 1929–1948, n.d.
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… lease accept my apologies for not replying to your kind letter of March 14,1940. This matter was mishandled and accounts for the negligence. I most certainly appreciate your offer to work up a list of your botanical publications and also to have made some pictures of your botanical laboratories, but feel that this would involve too much of your time, etc. From the catalog of publications I had hoped to draw some material for use in my laboratory in work involving plant physiology and anatomy. As for the pictures, I thought it might be possible to add to collection of laboratory history. However, I am most gratefu …
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Digital Object: DO #2672 · File: 48_20th%20Century%20Botanists_Bx4FF46r
Collection-level dates: 1873–1970
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE CROPS RESEARCH DIVISION BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND April 7, 1960 Dr. W. W. Ray Department of Botany The University of Nebraska Lincoln 8, Nebraska Dear Dr. Ray: I very much appreciate the effort you have made to obtain photographs of several of our charter members. I am particularly glad to add the photograph of Dr. Walker to our collection. Very truly yours, John A. Stevenson Principal Mycologist in Charge Mycology and Plant Disease Reporting Section Crops Protection Research Branch Please address reply to: The National Fungus Collection Plant Indus …
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Digital Object: DO #4743 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx4FF34_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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… 165 THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING LARAMIE, WYOMING 82070 July 1, 1969 Dr. David Rogers Department of Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80302 Dear Dave: The Organizing Committee of the IV Mexican Botanical Congress is planning a symposium on the present state of botanical research in Mexico, as well as other projects concerned with Mexican plants. It has been arranged that three speakers will discuss the work actually being done within the Mexican Republic, and in addition studies carried on in the U.S., but involving Mexican plants, will be presented. One of the U.S. speakers will cover those investiga …
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Digital Object: DO #5011 · File: 179_Langman_Bx1FF14_r
Collection-level dates: 1919–1980
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… LOPMENT, TAXONOMIC AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS: WILLARD W. PAYNE. 3198. NEOTROPICS: S. AMER., ECUADOR: DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGY IN ECUADOR: OLGA MENDOZA MACAS-VOSE. 3199. BIBLIOGRAPHY 3200. RIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOTANICAL LITERATURE OF SW-ASIAN: STEGMAR-W. BRECKLE. 3201. COMPILATION FOR COMPUTER USE: THE PRE-PLEISTOCENE SPORRS, POLLEN AND MICROPLANKTON REPORTED IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE: WORLD WIDE: GERHARD D.W. KREMP. 3202. INDEX TO THE "BRYOLOGIA" VOL. 61 - PRESENT: RAY STOTLER. 3203. ATALIO-BIOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN PHYCOLOGY: DIETER MOLLENHAUER. 3204. RIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOTANY OF SIKKIM: K.M. MATTHEW. 3205. PURLI …
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Digital Object: DO #4028 · File: 296_Lowy_Bx5FF14_r
Collection-level dates: 1949–1990
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BOTANICAL MUSEUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 October 5, 1973 Dr. Bernard Lowey Department of Botany Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Dear Bernard: Thanks for the pre-publication copy of your article on Amanita muscaria. Please do not forget us with a reprint. Sincerely yours, Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D. Professor of Biology Director, Botanical Museum RES:dw
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Digital Object: DO #4268 · File: 131_Fogg_Bx2FF2_r
Collection-level dates: 1923–1981
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Egolf, Donald R. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE CROPS RESEARCH DIVISION NATIONAL ARBORETUM ADDRESS REPLY TO: UNITED STATES NATIONAL ARBORETUM WASHINGTON 25, D. C. September 19, 1962 Dr. John M. Fogg, Jr., Director The Morris Arboretum 9414 Meadowbrook Avenue Philadelphia 18, Pennsylvania Dear Jack: I am sure that your European trip was very enjoyable and most rewarding. The approach to horticulture in Europe has a somewhat different slant from the United States, but yet much can be learned from observing the research as well as the commercial practices. Thank you for forward …
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Digital Object: DO #1542 · File: 212_Haas_Bx4Volume1_r
Collection-level dates: 1906–1986
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a Dieophen in Form O Gipell Schreiber, o also in ilgipell zur Pekhoffs und Bäum Die Pflongen & ihren Zinispünen. Der 1/2 die Anatomie der Pflanzen. I. Anatomie der Pflanzen (Die Aufbau der Pflanze) die Pflanzen bau 1/3 bis 2/3 ihrer Zahl 25 Zellen auf. Wir wollen deshalb folgende in den Zellenlehre, die Anatomie der Pflanze ist in der Entstehung des zellulären Mikroskop wichtig. Man muß bei mir Pflanzen zu Zelle und Zelle mit einem Heißluftjoch der Dachrin untersuchen. Die Väter der Pflanzenanatomie sind Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) und Englebert Webermann (1641-1721). Die Namen der Zellen am mein Tafelblatt von …
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Item/Folder: Letters 4, 1937–1938
Digital Object: DO #1091 · File: 16_Hermann_Bx1FF4r
Collection-level dates: 1934–1951
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… sk. Gos. Univ. (Wiss. Ber. Moskauer Staatsuniv.) 11: 120-169. 1937. Russian with French summary. Ruoff, Z.F. Obzor russkoj botanicheskoi literatury po bolotam i torfu zu 1925-1934 gody (A review of Russian botanical literature on bogs and peat from 1925 to 1934). Uchenye Zapiski Moskovsk. Gos. Univ. (Wiss. Ber. Moskauer Staatsuniv.) 11: 170-208. 1938. Russian with English summary. U.S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Chem. & Soils, Soil Surv. Rep. (1 SoS2F) Poulson, E.N. & Youngs, F.O. Soil survey of the Upper Gila Valley area, Arizona. U.S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Chem. & Soils, Soil Surv. Rep. ser.1933, no.15. 41 p. map. 1938. In coop …
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Digital Object: DO #1707 · File: 72_Degener_Bx7FF22_r
Collection-level dates: 1915–1985, n.d.
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Published in the July (1934) issue of the Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. LIII, No. 3, J. E. Ackert, Editor REVIEWS 295 FLORA HAWAIIENSIS, OR NEW ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: by Otto Degener. Published by the author, 1932. $3.50. (Obtainable from Otto Degener at 2222 University Ave., Honolulu, T. H., or at 7 Goodrich Ave., Fieldston, Riverdale, New York City. This is the first of a series of loose-leaf books in which the flora of the Hawaiian Islands is to be taken up in the manner of a standard manual of botany on a larger scale than one would expect from just the term manu …
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