Out-of-Print Publications
The Torner Collection of Sessé & Mociño Biological Illustrations CD-ROM (Out of Print)
Catalogue compiled by James J. White, Rogers McVaugh and Robert W. Kiger; Historical Introduction by Rogers McVaugh; Photography, Digital Reproduction and HTML by Frank A. Reynolds. Produced by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and The Universal Library; Published by Carnegie Mellon CD Press. 1998. 5 9/16 x 4 7/8"; 4 oz. ISBN 0-913196-60-6.
This CD-ROM featured 1,989 full-color digital reproductions of watercolor drawings from the 1787–1803 Spanish Royal Expedition to New Spain in the Torner Collection of the Hunt Institute, with catalogue and historical introduction. The CD-ROM was platform independent and required a color monitor and a Web browser, preferably version 4.0 or higher of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
With Rogers McVaugh's Botanical Results of the Sessé & Mociño Expedition (1787–1803) VII. A Guide to Relevant Scientific Names of Plants (2000) and The Torner Collection of Sessé & Mociño Biological Illustrations CD-ROM (1998) being out of print, in 2018 the Institute digitized the McVaugh book and turned the CD-ROM into a searchable database so that scholars can once again pair McVaugh's exhaustive accounting of the approximately 7,500 plant names relating to the Expedition with the full-color digital reproductions of watercolor botanical drawings from the Expedition for the most comprehensive information yet assembled about the botanical results of the Spanish Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain.
