ASBS Newsletter

Number 133, December 2007

Contents

From the President..........1

ASBS Inc. business
2007 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc..........1
Attachment 1 – President’s report..........2
Attachment 2 – Treasurer’s report ..........5
New members..........13
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund..........13
New round of applications to the Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund..........13

Articles
Linné, Solander, the apostles and their time..........14
Taking botanical photographs..........23
The eFlora of the Sydney Region: ‘shortening the distance between discovery and delivery’.....29
Collection and curation of material of Dianella Lam. ex Juss. and Rhuacophila Blume (Hemerocallidaceae) for herbarium and living collections..........30
GrassWorld update..........35
Corrections to article on 1840 Drummond letter in Newsletter 131 –2..........36

Obituaries
Vale Helen Joan Hewson 1938–2007 ..........37
Joseph Wiakabu, Papuan New Guinean plant collector...........41

News
Special edition of Nuytsia launched..........42
An exciting year for the WA Herbarium..........43
Australasian electronic Floras workshop in Adelaide ..........44
New Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at Kew..........45
Peter Neish moving on from the National Herbarium of Victoria..........45
Jane Morton moving on from Weed Spotting..........45
Some old news: Churchill Fellowship for Ray Cranfield..........46
... and the Jim Ross PhD Scholarship..........46

Food for thought
Fossil orchid and pollinator provide date of origin for orchids..........46
The “Botanist effect”..........46
Use of natural history specimens in population genetics..........47
Playing taxonomist ..........47

Miscellanea
Some background to Robert Brown’s Australian botanical work: his manuscripts, publications and plant-names ..........47
Western Australia plant knowledge advancing apace..........47
Georgiana Molloy..........48
Accessing FI Types..........48
National Taxonomy Forum..........48
View the completed Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns..........48

ABRS report..........48

ABLO report..........50

Book reviews
Comments on Sturt Pea book..........54

New books
Field guide to eastern Australian rainforest climbers..........54
An encyclopaedia on Linnaean apostles..........55
The fi rst volume of a Flora of Korea..........55

Meeting reports
‘Up there Cazaly’ – the ASBS National Conference, Darwin 2007..........55
Bryophyte Workshop – Darwin, 27–28th September 2007..........57
Botanical Latin workshop, Darwin, 27–28th September 2007..........58
‘Down the track’ – the 2007 ASBS Symposium fi eld trip..........59

Coming meetings
2008 ..........61
2009..........61
2011..........62

From Enviroweeds
Gamba Grass now a declared plant for Western Australia..........62
Date Palm: salinity fi ghter and/or environmental nuisance..........62
Promoting weed awareness in Aboriginal communities of Northern Australia.......... .62
Rod Randall’s list of weeds available electronically..........62
Cars and seed dispersal..........62
Fighting weeds with model helicopters..........62

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