ASBS Newsletter
Number 179, June 2019
Contents
- From the President
- A new President1
- Notice. Annual General Meeting1
- Notice. 2019–2020 Council nominations2
- The Wellington ASBS conference2
- ASBS funding2
- Genomes for Australian Plants (GAP)3
- Some housekeeping.3
- Postscript3
- Taxonomy Australia report3
- Articles
- Databasing of the global collections at the National Herbarium of Victoria7
- The strange case of the stolen butterflies11
- Iles Stériles or iles stériles: a location of varying precision in 19th Century collections13
- Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP)
- Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) project update14
- ABRS report17
- Coming conferences
- Taxonomy for Conservation – Ruia mai i Rangiātea: ASBS-NZPCN 2019 Conference, Wellington update18
- Other coming conferences
- SASB conference 201920
- 2nd Australian Native Bee Conference20
- BGANZ 2019 Congress20
- Australian Garden History Society –40th Annual National Conference 201920
- News
- Queen's birthday honours list 201921
- Retirement and recognition21
- Funding for new NSW Herbarium included in budget21
- Digitisation at the Allan Herbarium (CHR)22
- The Great Weeds Hunt Aotearoa22
- Foulden Maar fossil site under threat from mining22
- An official declaration of climate emergency.22
- Human responsibility for imminent extinction of one million species22
- Global analysis of extinct plants.23
- Red Hot Plant List23
- Putting a monetary value on collections.24
- A monetary value on names for new species.24
- Nation-wide assessment and photo competition for Eucalyptus s.lat.24
- Eucalypts genetics conference 201924
- Bavarians for biodiversity24
- Biocontrol moths to halt spread of horehound in New Zealand.25
- New Lucid releases.25
- Archives in Britain now available through Trove25
- Points of view
- Native vs naturalised26
- Slave trade26
- Changing language with respect to climate change26
- Graduation speeches27
- Items of interest
- Spend two hours a week in nature to feel well27
- Call for relook at safety of plant biocontrol with arthropods27
- Nutritional enhancement by genetic modification – a review27
- Flora of Myanmar28
- The complexities of Salvia.28
- The desert raisin – hidden depths28
- Duodichogamous flowers28
- Water discovery in ancient underground valley in northern South Australia.28
- Using goats in the battle against wildfires in California29
- Olive killer disease in Europe.29
- The world's largest mangrove ecosystem is becoming homogeneous29
- Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives29
- The role of living collections in taxonomic research29
- What is a pleurogram?29
- An analysis of emoji – we need more plant examples30
- Mycorrhizal fungi influence global plant biogeography30
- Fungi accumulating gold30
- Fossil fungus means origin of fungi earlier than thought30
- Dead Sea fossils hint at earlier start for some ancient plants30
- She sells sea shells by the sea shore30
- The old university model is becoming obsolete31
- Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal31
- Fake paper accepted by four journals31
- Preprints – for and against and the status of names published in them31
- Women pioneers in freshwater ecology32
- JSTOR Text Analyzer32
- Dogs with increasing roles in conservation32
- Running an inclusive scientific conference32
- The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture33
- Rediscovered plant illustrations by artist/botanist from 1800s Cuba33
- Websites of interest
- Threatened Species Recovery Hub33
- Helping identify cultivated plants33
- Behind the paper backgrounds Nature Research34
- The Society of Herbarium Curators34
- Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania34
- Deaths
- Arthur Weston (1932–2019)35
- Harold Trevor Clifford (1927–2019)36
- George Argent (1941–2019)36
- Margaret Stones37
- H.B.S. Womersley (1922–2011)37
- Events
- Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand volumes 2 and 3 launched in Lincoln37
- Part of Pat Brownsey's speech37
- From Ilse Breitwieser's speech40
- Book reviews
- Another book on orchids41
- Tree titbits and treats from Hong Kong and southern China42
- New books
- Printed publications44
- Downloadables49
- Chapter conveners51
- Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions51
- About the Society and becoming a member52
- ASBS publications52
- About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors53
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