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Ongoing project sponsored by ten natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions. Digitized biology texts, journals, ...

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Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions | The Institute
The Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions is a 501(c)(3) organization devoted to fundamental research hosted by the Smithsonian Institution ...

Renaissance Herbals
Renaissance Herbals / Plantarum Aetatis Novae Tabulae (PLANT). A joint project Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collection (Washington DC, USA), ...

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Jan 12, 2010 ... Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation promotes the history of botany through its collections, research, exhibitions, publications, ...

Library | Dumbarton Oaks
Sep 12, 2010 ... The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library collects materials to support scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies, and garden and ...

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The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) is the leading professional organization in the field of botanical and horticultural ...

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The Oak Spring Garden Library is a private collection formed by Mrs. Mellon, reflecting her lifelong love of books and gardening. Below is a quote from Mrs. Mellon found in the preface of an Oak Spring Garland, published in 1989, regarding the evolution of the Library and her passion for botanical books and manuscripts.

"...This collection of books and drawings grew as a way of life, not just a gathering of rare and interesting books bought at the enticement of an enthusiastic bookseller, but chosen one by one for their special and unusual contents and design, as well as their relationship to books already part of the collection. It is a working library where mystery, fascination, and romance contribute to centuries of the art of gardening as a source of discovery" and so the process remains to this day.


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