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.

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Page 43 · DO #4232 · 182_Goodspeed_Bx3FF72_r

Collection
Thomas Harper Goodspeed (1887–1966) papers
Item/Folder
Re Nicotiana, 1946–1959
Digital Object
DO #4232, page 43
Collection-level dates
1923–1963
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Page transcription

136 Revue Internationale des Industries Agricoles

L 691°. — G. LAWRENCE. — INTRODUCTION TO PLANT TAXONOMY.
(Introduction à la taxonomie des plantes). — Macmillan C°, New-York, éd., 1955. — Un vol., 179 p., 69 fig. (In-8/11.501).
Classification des plantes. Evolution et unifiés de classification. Structure des plantes. Techniques de la collection et de l'identification. Nomenclature. Phylogénie et biosystématique. Taxonomie dans l'Amérique du Nord. Familles importantes et leurs caractères.

I. 692°. — T. H. GOODSPED. — THE GENUS NICOTIANA. ORIGINS,
RELATIONSHIPS AND EVOLUTION OF ITS SPECIES IN THE LIGHT
OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, MORPHOLOGY AND CYTOGENETICS.
(Le genre Nicotiana. Origines, parentés et évolution de ses espèces, des points de vue de leur distribution, morphologie et cytogénétique). — Chronica Botanica C°, Waltham (U.S.A.), éd., 1954. Diatr. en France: P. Raymann, Paris (6). Coll. « Chronica Botanica, Serial Studies, vol. 16, n° 1/6 ». — Un vol., 536 p., 118 pl. h. t. et ill., 50 tabl. — Prix: § 12.50. In-8/11.206).
I. Distribution : World distribution ; South America, North America, Australia and the south Pacific distribution. — II. Morphology : General morphology ; anatomy and trichomes. — III. Cytology of species : chromosome number and morphology ; cytology of reproduction : euploidy, aneuploidy and amphiploidy. — IV. Cytology of F1 interspecific Hybrids : categories of pairing and genetic sequence structure and significance of MI Behavior. — V. Phyletic : special origins, relationships and evolution ; the future of the Genus. — VI. Taxonomy of Nicotiana : historical Résumé ; description of Genus ; Key to Subgenera and Sections : descriptions of subgeneric categories with keys to species and varieties : Subgenera rustica, Tabacum and Petunoides ; Insufficiently known.

I. 693°. — H. GAMS. — KLEINE KRYPTOGAMENFLORA VON MITTELEUROPA II. BASHIOMYCETEN II. Teil. M. MOSER. — DIE RÖHRLINGE,
BLETTER-UND BAUMPILZE. (Petits cryptogames de l'Europe Centrale.
II. Basidiomycètes. II. Partie Agaricales et gastromycètes). — G. Fischer, Stuttgart (Allemagne), éd., 1955. 2 vol. — Un vol., 327 p., 17 figs. — Prix: D.M. 16.50. (In-8/8.236 - II).
Revue de douze familles de champignons. (V. nos précédentes analyses : L 5212 et L 37410).

L 694°. — J. McLUCKIE et H. S. McKEE. — AUSTRALIAN AND NEW
ZEALAND BOTANY. (Botanique d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande). — Associated General Publications, Sydney, (Australie), éd., 1955. — Un vol., 758 p., 276 figs. — Prix: 84/. (In-8/11.403).
Ouvrage comportant deux parties destinées aux élèves des Universités d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande, et comprenant trois parties : I. Généralités sur la chimie et la constitution des plantes; les phénomènes de diffusion, d'osmose, d'absorption, transpiration, photosynthèse, respiration ; la croissance, les vitamines et enzymes. — II. Classification du règne végétal ; évolution des plantes ; champignons, bactéries et virus ; angiospermes hétérotrophiques. — III. Nomenclature et classification des plantes à fleurs ; herédité ; paléobotanique ; variation et évolution ; écologie et géographie des plantes ; Flore australienne et new-zélandaise. — Progrès de la botanique australienne.

L 695°. — M. H. MULBERGER et K. BERTSCH. — ALPENBLUMEN. (Fleurs des Alpes). — Otto Maier, Ravensburg (Allemagne), éd., 1954. — Deux vol. : I. Atlas, 21 tabl. et 141 ill. col. II. Texte : 35 p. — Prix: D.M. 7.80. (In-8/11.412).
Très bel atlas, reproduisant dans ses coloris la flore de la montagne et constituant avec le texte explicatif qui l'accompagne, le guide idéal de l'amateur de la nature et de ses fleurs.

L 696°. — ANNE ASHBERRY. — MINIATURE FLOWERS AND VASES.
(Fleurs et vases miniatures). — C. A. Pearson, Londres, éd., 1955. — Un vol., 190 p., 129 pl. h. t. — Prix: 15/. (In-8/11.466).
Album de plantes et vases miniatures portant la marque d'un goût délicat, accompagné de commentaires explicatifs sur l'harmonie et les coloris, les époques de floraison, les noms des plantes, les roses et les vases miniatures, les fleurs séchées.