diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index b884b41c5d..aabdd4a7ce 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## vNEXT
+
+* Support `Npm.require('foo/bar')`.  #3505 #3526
+
 ## v.1.0.3.1, 2015-Jan-20
 
 * Rewrite `meteor show` and `meteor search` to show package information for
diff --git a/tools/bundler.js b/tools/bundler.js
index b2b46bb1e7..95a3529bd7 100644
--- a/tools/bundler.js
+++ b/tools/bundler.js
@@ -1319,17 +1319,20 @@ _.extend(JsImage.prototype, {
 
             var nodeModuleDir =
               files.pathJoin(item.nodeModulesDirectory.sourcePath, name);
-
-            if (files.exists(nodeModuleDir)) {
+            var nodeModuleTopDir =
+              files.pathJoin(item.nodeModulesDirectory.sourcePath,
+                             name.split("/")[0]);
+            if (files.exists(nodeModuleTopDir)) {
               return require(nodeModuleDir);
             }
 
             try {
               return require(name);
             } catch (e) {
-              throw new Error("Can't load npm module '" + name +
-                              "' while loading " + item.targetPath +
-                              ". Check your Npm.depends().'");
+              buildmessage.error(
+                "Can't load npm module '" + name + "' from " +
+                  item.targetPath + ". Check your Npm.depends().");
+              return undefined;
             }
           }
         },
diff --git a/tools/server/boot.js b/tools/server/boot.js
index a8cc49bf1c..917b9a780e 100644
--- a/tools/server/boot.js
+++ b/tools/server/boot.js
@@ -129,12 +129,17 @@ Fiber(function () {
           return require(name);
         }
 
-        var nodeModuleDir =
-          path.resolve(serverDir, fileInfo.node_modules, name);
+        var nodeModuleBase = path.resolve(serverDir, fileInfo.node_modules);
 
-        if (fs.existsSync(nodeModuleDir)) {
+        var nodeModuleDir = path.resolve(nodeModuleBase, name);
+
+        // If the user does `Npm.require('foo/bar')`, then we should resolve to
+        // the package's node modules if `foo` was one of the modules we
+        // installed.  (`foo/bar` might be implemented as `foo/bar.js` so we
+        // can't just naively see if all of nodeModuleDir exists.
+        if (fs.existsSync(path.resolve(nodeModuleBase, name.split("/")[0]))) {
           return require(nodeModuleDir);
-          }
+        }
         try {
           return require(name);
         } catch (e) {