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ASBS Newsletter

Number 176, September 2018

Contents

  • From the President
  •      Taxonomy Australia. . . . .1
  •      Genomics for Australian Plants – GAP. . . . .1
  •      Now available – complete set of back issues of ASBS Newsletter. . . . .1
  •      Signing off. . . . .2
  • Taxonomy Australia report
  •      Introducing Taxonomy Australia. . . . .2
  •      Notice. 2018 Annual General Meeting. . . . .3
  • Articles
  •      “Bagster”: lapsus calami for Baxter (William). . . . ..4
  •      Note on the type of Acacia latifolia Benth.. . . . .6
  •      Plant blindness. . . . .6
  • Awards
  •      Allan Mere Award to Ilse Breitweiser. . . . .7
  •      BioOne Ambassador Award to Ben Anderson. . . . ..8
  • ABRS report. . . . .9
  • News
  •      Wattle day and Wattle. . . . ..10
  •      Brazil’s National Museum fire. . . . .10
  •      IAPT embraces the web and social media. . . . .11
  •      Use of art to warn of climate change effects. . . . .11
  •      Branch Out features Barbara Briggs. . . . .11
  •      Oops!. . . . .11
  •      How are we communicating the importance of Taxonomy?. . . . .12
  •      First State of the World’s Fungi meeting held at Kew. . . . .12
  •      Plants miss out at Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference. . . . ..12
  •      Gone Mallee. . . . .12
  •      Contrasting thoughts of scientific communicators on their subject. . . . .12
  • Websites of interest
  •      Brain pickings. . . . ..13
  •      Australia’s Science Channel. . . . .13
  •      Beating around the Bush. . . . ..13
  • Points of view
  •      Scientific publishing monopoly to end?. . . . ..13
  •      End of a journal?. . . . ..13
  •      The twenty most charismatic species. . . . ..13
  •      Case for introducing rhinos to Australia. . . . ..14
  •      Minimising taxonomic change?. . . . ..14
  • Items of interest
  •      A demise of Antarctica’s ‘moss forests’?. . . . .14
  •      Seagrass recovery. . . . .14
  •      Great green balls of algae. . . . .15
  •      Mangrove conservation headaches. . . . ..15
  •      How did the boabs get to Australia?. . . . .15
  •      Old African baobabs dying. . . . ..15
  •      Losing Earth: the decade we almost stopped climate change. . . . .15
  •      Herbarium specimens helping to understand changes associated with urbanisation. . . . ..16
  •      Herbarium specimens used to study herbivory changes with time. . . . .16
  •      “Herbaria are data gold mines”. . . . .16
  •      Myrtle rust. . . . .17
  •      “New guidelines for biological survey and mapped data (revised 16th August 2018)”. . . . .17
  •      Is Australia’s EPBC Act effective?. . . . ..17
  •      Ray Cranfield and lichens. . . . .17
  •      Defining a genetically modified crop. . . . ..17
  •      Authenticating Australian honey using pollen analysis. . . . .17
  •      Bees, extinction and land clearance: getting your facts right.. . . . .18
  •      Fire. . . . ..18
  •      A cause for concern?. . . . .18
  •      Refereeing advice. . . . .18
  •      The Wardian Case. . . . .18
  •      Pollination ecology review. . . . ..18
  • ASBS Brisbane 2018 conference update. . . . .19
  • Meeting and workshop reports
  •      Australasian Herbarium collections managers attend Dunedin conference. . . . .20
  •      Systematics workshop reveals diverse assemblage of budding systematists. . . . ..21
  • Coming conferences
  •      12th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference. Canberra; 11–15 November 2018. . . . .22
  •      Taming the BEAST Down Under, Sydney: 17–22 February 2019. . . . .22
  • Deaths
  •      Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 – 15 August 2018. . . . .23
  •      Text of a short informal talk by Joy Thompson to NSW Herbarium staff in 2003. . . . .27
  •      Darrell Nairn Kraehenbuehl 21 Jan 1934 – 2 Aug 2018. . . . .28
  •      Clara Marjorie Walpole Andrew (known as Marjorie) 28 Nov 1918 – 11 Oct 2018. . . . ..29
  •      Neville Forde 1 May 1933 – 25 May 2018. . . . ..30
  • New books
  •      Downloadables. . . . .34
  •      Three new journals. . . . ..34
  • Chapter conveners. . . . .35
  • Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .35
  • About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .36
  • ASBS publications. . . . .36
  • About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .37

 

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