News
36(2) Bulletin published
3 November 2025
In this issue of the Bulletin Assistant Director/Principal Data Curator J. Dustin Williams explains how AI is enhancing the data in our new Archives Text Discovery Platform. With Adjunct Research Scholar Linda White, he reveals the Botanical Article Bibliographic Records database, the first of our Bibliographia Huntiana databases. Archivist Nancy L. Janda covers The Art and Science of Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero, featuring selections from his collection, and details other recent gifts. She and Curator of Art Lydia Rosenberg recount university outreach events. Archival Assistant Chad Denton explores the mystery of Gustav Fischer. Senior Curator of Art Carrie Roy illuminates the newest addition to the collections. Publication and Marketing Manager Scarlett T. Townsend details the retirement of Charlotte A. Tancin and the departure of Linda White and also publishes another volume of Huntia. We thank our 2025 Sponsors for supporting our mission and programs and strengthening our collections.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, 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.
Media Contact:
Scarlett T. Townsend
412-268-7304
st19@andrew.cmu.edu
