Botany Libraries

The Botany Libraries archives will have limited appointments available from April 15- June 7, and appointments may need to be scheduled several weeks in advance. Please allow at least one week for responses to archives appointment, reference, and digitization emails during that time period.


The Harvard University Herbaria house five comprehensive, non-circulating research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The combined collections are rich repositories of rare books, manuscripts, field notes, and historical correspondence, as well as current monographs, journals and electronic media.

The Libraries support the academic and research interests of the faculty, researchers, staff and students of the Harvard University Herbaria and are open to an international community of scholars.

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