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The Southland Orchid Show is coming! In an attempt to educate the public on the strange and mysterious side of orchids, the Southland Orchid Show committee has named this year's show "Orchid Mystique."

The BBC reported earlier today that Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies. The book is a sequel to Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Mantel's papers are housed at The Huntington.

The Huntington is abuzz with the Civil War this fall. Manuscript exhibition "A Just Cause: Voices of the American Civil War," curated by Olga Tsapina, opened just a few weeks ago in the West Hall of the Library and gives its visitors an opportunity to try to make sense of that war through letters, diaries, and rare printed material from the time.

Last weekend, Huntington President Steve Koblik was among the 220 honorees who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The ceremony, held in Cambridge, Mass., continued a tradition dating back to 1780

When I was working on my recent book about Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian's first curator of birds, I got to thinking about the large sets of stuffed birds, or "study skins," that he and his fellow bird professionals kept in drawers and cabinets in natural history museums.

John Trager and Karen Zimmerman labor quietly throughout the year propagating plants for The Huntington's International Succulents Introductions (ISI) program. Described as "a shopper's paradise and a unique conservation program" in the spring/summer 2006 issue of Huntington Frontiers

Lost in sesquicentennial commemorations of various Civil War anniversaries is the fact that we are in the thick of the bicentennial year of one of America's other Civil Wars—the War of 1812. Or at least that's how Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor sees it.

The Huntington's Botanical Gardens have long been a spectacular locale for strolling among diverse arrays of trees and plants. Less known to everyday visitors is the fact that the gardens also have long served as a lab of sorts for botanists