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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