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ASBS Newsletter

Number 149, December 2011

Contents


From the President . . . . . . . . . . 1
ASBS Inc. business . . . . . . . . . . 2
     2011 Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. –Minutes . . . . . . . . . . 2
     ASBS President’s Report 2010-2011 . . . . . . . . . . 4
     ASBS Treasurer’s Report 2010-11 . . . . . . . . . . 7
     Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award for 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 15
     Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund September 2011 Round . . . . . . . . . . 16
Reminders to members . . . . . . . . . . 16
     Annual fees are now due . . . . . . . . . . 16
     Applications to two ASBS research grant schemes due by March 14th . . . . . . . . . . 16
     Call for Newsletter reports from Eichler research grant recipients . . . . . . . . . . 16
     Annual ASBS Conference in Perth 23rd–26th September . . . . . . . . . . 16
Articles . . . . . . . . . . 17
     Why is taxonomy still presented to the world as books? . . . . . . . . . . 17
     Advertisement: Coates Wildlife Tours . . . . . . . . . . 19
     Athroisma laciniatum DC. (Asteraceae), a new record for Australia . . . . . . . . . . 23
     Safeguarding Australia’s flora . . . . . . . . . . 26
     The view from Kew . . . . . . . . . . 28
     When a city falls – how is the Allan Herbarium at Lincoln
     near Christchurch (New Zealand) coping after 14 months of earthquakes? . . . . . . . . . . 31
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . 32
     Gillian Perry (née Jenkins) 19th October 1943 – 22nd August 2011 . . . . . . . . . . 32
     Michael Perry’s eulogy . . . . . . . . . . 34
     Peter Taylor of Kew (1926-2011) . . . . . . . . . . 37
Botanical curiosity . . . . . . . . . . 39
Deaths . . . . . . . . . . 40
     David Symon . . . . . . . . . . 4
     Michael Lazarides . . . . . . . . . . 40
     Bernard Verdcourt . . . . . . . . . . 40
     Denis Gibbons . . . . . . . . . . 41
News . . . . . . . . . . 41
     New faces at HO . . . . . . . . . . 41
     Award for the Rainforest Key . . . . . . . . . . 42
     State Herbarium of South Australia publications now online . . . . . . . . . . 44
ABRS report . . . . . . . . . . 44
ASBS Inc. business (cont.) . . . . . . . . . . 45
     The Common Seal of the Society - a phantom no more! . . . . . . . . . . 45
Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . 46
     Publishing in the Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 46
     A biography of J.D. Hooker . . . . . . . . . . 48
     Antarctic palaeontology . . . . . . . . . . 50
     South American palaeobotany – the comprehensive account . . . . . . . . . . 51
     An updated annotated illustrated guide to south-east Australian weeds . . . . . . . . . . 54
     A manual for restoring Perth’s coastal flora . . . . . . . . . . 56
     A review of the “Flora of Hong Kong” volumes . . . . . . . . . . 58
Books of interest . . . . . . . . . . 60
Websites of interest . . . . . . . . . . 61
     Wallich and Indian Natural History . . . . . . . . . . 61
     Amalie Dietrich’s specimens in Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . 61
     A new booklet from the Taxonomy Research & Information Network . . . . . . . . . . 62
Current and coming exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . 62
     Napoleon exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria . . . . . . . . . . 62
     Travelling von Guerard exhibition visits Canberra and Queensland . . . . . . . . . . 62
Chapter Conveners . . . . . . . . . . 63
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions . . . . . . . . . . 63
ASBS Publications . . . . . . . . . . 64

 

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