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Botany and Plant Sciences Library Resources at Yale: Special and Historical Collections

This guide identifies major information resources in botany including databases, bibliographies, handbooks, and guides.

Special Collections Materials at Yale

Special collections at Yale are housed in many locations. Most collections relevant to botany will be held at the Medical Historical Library or at the Beinecke. Historical information about the university and scientists may be in Manuscripts and Archives.

Please let us know if you would like to integrate special collections teaching into a course by reaching out to us at marx.reference@yale.edu. We have many items in our historical collections that may enrich coursework for science students.

What follows is a list of some samplings from the collection.