About BRIT Press

BRIT Press is the publications arm of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®). Since 1967, the Press has distributed books and journals across the globe in support of BRIT's commitment to scientific research by botanists, including BRIT’s own scholars.

Titles range from widely accessible by non-botanist plant enthusiasts to scholarly research, including the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (JBRIT). All proceeds benefit the mission of BRIT: to conserve our natural heritage by deepening our knowledge of the plant world and achieving public understanding of the value plants bring to life.

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Location & Shipping

Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Attn: Shop BRIT
1700 University Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76107-3400

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About BRIT

BRIT is a part of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, and is a renowned scientific research and conservation center focusing on plant biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation, from local to global scales. BRIT’s resources include a state-of-the-art molecular and structural laboratory, conservation seed bank, an herbarium with over 1.5 million specimens, a botanical press, and a botanical library of over 120,000 volumes.

BRIT’s aim is to conserve natural heritage by deepening knowledge of the plant world and achieving public understanding of the value plants bring to life. BRIT operates in support of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden's mission:

To explore the critically important world of plants, collaborate to discover the role they play in our cultural and natural environments, and engage people to conserve nature and improve the human experience.

Founded in 1987 and based in Fort Worth, BRIT documents the diversity of plant life and conducts extensive research around the world. In the last 10 years, BRIT scientists have located and described scores of species previously unknown to science. BRIT scientists share many desires and traits with the botanist-explorers of the 18th centruy like Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, and Charles Darwin: they're adventurous, curious, passionate, independent, and smart. They are intrinsically teachers, driven to find new plant species and research plant life for agricultural, economic, environmental, medical, and social uses and to share that knowledge in the classroom and the research laboratory.

Current major projects are ongoing in Texas, SE USA, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.

BRIT supports botanical solutions to address globally challenging problems ranging from pollution clean-up to sustainable food sources. By serving as a think tank and catalyst, BRIT inspires learning and forms interdisciplinary collaborations for critical research within scientific, educational, social, cultural, and business communities.

BRIT's work impacts our community and the world in many functional areas including environment, by giving people a local sense of stewardship; medicinal plant efficacy, by contributing with colleagues to an appreciation of the nutritional and medicinal use of plants; society, by training a new generation of thinkers and problem solvers; and in agriculture, by working with our collaborating institutions to create a better understanding of sustainable agricultural practices and preserving plant diversity.

Shipping & Taxes

If you are a vendor or individual with tax exemption status, please contact us directly and email your sales tax exemption form to orders@brit.org.

USPS Library Rate

Used For: All domestic shipping
Cost Level: Most cost efficient shipping rate
Ship Time: Up to 10-14 business days to receive your order.

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Cost Level: May be more expensive
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International Orders

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Orders to Canada are shipped via UPS standard shipping and automatically calculated based on weight.

If you are a vendor and would like to pay with a purchase order number please contact us directly at shopsupport@brit.org or l 817.332.4441 and ask for the Press Assistant to place an order. Please identify yourself as either a wholesaler, retailer or college bookstore.

BRIT supports botanical solutions to address globally challenging problems ranging from pollution clean-up to sustainable food sources. By serving as a think tank and catalyst, BRIT inspires learning and forms interdisciplinary collaborations for critical research within scientific, educational, social, cultural, and business communities.

BRIT's work impacts our community and the world in many functional areas including environment, by giving people a local sense of stewardship; medicinal plant efficacy, by contributing with colleagues to an appreciation of the nutritional and medicinal use of plants; society, by training a new generation of thinkers and problem solvers; and in agriculture, by working with our collaborating institutions to create a better understanding of sustainable agricultural practices and preserving plant diversity.

Return Policy

Unused items in original packaging and in the condition received may be returned within 30 days with a receipt or proof of purchase.

Refunds must be approved upon inspection of a returned item. You will be contacted by email to confirm approval or rejection of your refund. Purchase of sale items and Print on Demand items is final and will not be refunded.

If approved, a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment. Processing times may vary.

Returns will be subject to a 10% restocking fee.

In some situations, a partial refund may be approved, such as:

Book with obvious signs of use
Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error.
Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

If you were notified that your refund was approved, but you haven't yet received it, follow these steps.

Double-check the bank or credit card account.
Contact your credit card company. It may take some time before your refund is officially posted.
Contact your bank. There is often some processing time before a refund is posted.

Still no sign of your refund? Contact us at shopsupport@brit.org.

Only defective or damaged will be exchanged. To exchange for the same item, send us an email at shopsupport@brit.org and send your item to:
BRIT Press
1700 University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76107-3400, U.S.A.

The item must be returned with its original packaging and a note explaining the issue with the product, how it arrived defective or damaged, and any other pertinent information that will help us make a speedy exchange.

If the item was marked as a gift when purchased and shipped directly to you, you’ll receive a gift credit for the value of your return. Once the returned item is received, a gift certificate will be mailed to you.

If the item wasn’t marked as a gift when purchased, or the gift giver had the order shipped to themselves to give to you later, we will send a refund to the gift giver and he will found out about your return.

Return your product to:
BRIT Press
1700 University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76107-3400, U.S.A.

You will be responsible for paying for shipping costs for returns, and shipping costs are non-refundable; refunds will be for item price only.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you may vary.

For items over $75, consider using a trackable shipping service and/or shipping insurance. BRIT Press is not responsible for returned items not received by the Press.