Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. Learn more
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Mildred Esther Mathias papers
Mathias (1906–1995) was a taxonomist and professor of botany at the University of California, Los Angeles. In her lifetime she published over 100 botanical articles and books and received numerous awards. This collection consists of correspondence concerning her activities and those of her correspondents, particularly activities relating to her determination of specimens of Apiaceae alt. Umbelliferae.
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Fannie (also Fanny) Elisabeth Waugh Davis pen-and-ink drawings
Davis (1871–1958) worked mainly in pen-and-ink and pencil but did some watercolors. The Art Department has 158 pen-and-ink drawings by Davis.
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To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding
17 March–30 June 2026Building on the words of Emily Dickinson, "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee," our spring exhibition explores how humanity came to understand one of nature's most essential relationships: the intricate partnership between plants and their pollinators.
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