ASBS Newsletter
Number 173, December 2017
Contents
- ASBS Inc. business
- In this issue. . . . .1
- The new ASBS Council. . . . .1
- New Year actions for members. . . . .1
- Notice: 2018 Membership Fees. . . . .1
- Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc.: Minutes of Annual General Meeting 2017. . . . . 2
- Appendix 1. ASBS President’s report. . . . .4
- Appendix 2. ASBS Treasurer’s report, 2016/17. . . . .6
- Financial report. . . . .11
- Notice: Hansjörg Eichler Research Grants. . . . .15
- Appendix 3. ASBS Newsletter report. . . . .16
- Appendix 4. ASBS Web Pages report. . . . .16
- Appendix 5. ASBS Facebook Group report. . . . .17
- Appendix 6. ASBS Research Committee report. . . . .17
- Conference reports
- Systematics 2017: Integrating Systematics for Conservation and Ecology —
- ASBS/SASB Conference, University of Adelaide, November 26–29 2017. . . . .19
- Eichler Research Fund reports
- Molecular systematics of the New Caledonian Cryptocaryeae (Lauraceae). . . . .23
- Morphology of syntypes of the Australian resurrection grass,
- Tripogon loliiformis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae). . . . .25
- Points of view
- Virtual attendance at Nomenclatural session of IBC?. . . . .28
- 100 articles every ecologist should read. . . . .28
- Washington Post debate. . . . .29
- A world without glyphosate. . . . .29
- ABRS report. . . . .30
- Notice: Decadal Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics:
- Call for comment on Exposure Draft by January 31st. . . . .30
- Obituary
- Joan Margaret Taylor, 1929–2017. . . . .31
- Deaths
- Jan-Frits (JeF) Veldkamp (1941–2017). . . . .33
- W.R. (Bill) Sykes (1927–2018). . . . .34
- News
- Happy birthday to Paul Wilson. . . . .34
- Salt and vinegar Triodia. . . . .34
- A botanical trifecta and more. . . . .34
- Australian species causing havoc in a global biodiversity hotspot. . . . .35
- Across the Ditch — from the Allan Herbarium Facebook page. . . . .36
- Found in the wild for the first time. . . . .36
- A key for Cotoneaster. . . . .36
- Wanaka snot the same as Seattle slime?. . . . .36
- QuestaGame, a conservation application helping to discover new species. . . . .36
- Vascular plants of the Americas. . . . .37
- A portable DNA barcoding lab for rapid identification launched. . . . .37
- Web pages of interest
- Botany One: news and views on plant biology and ecology. . . . .37
- Communicating science. . . . .38
- Items of interest
- World scientists’ warning to humanity: a second notice. . . . .38
- Citing Chinese and Iranian authors. . . . .39
- Further on multiple authors. . . . .39
- And more on the cost of access to academic journals. . . . .39
- Book reviews
- Awakening interest in Tasmania’s rich algal flora. . . . .40
- Further insights into the life and art of Ferdinand Bauer. . . . .42
- New publications
- Books. . . . .44
- Downloadables. . . . .45
- Conference proceedings. . . . .46
- Identification slips
- Roman technology ahead of its time?. . . . .46
- Chapter conveners. . . . .47
- Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .47
- About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .48
- ASBS publications. . . . .48
- About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .49
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