New in the ANBG Library & Archive

March 2014

last issue: January/February 2014

The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.

The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.

Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

State of the climate 2014
[S.l.]: CSIRO & Bureau of Meteorology, 2014
"Provides a summary of observations of Australia’s climate and analysis of the factors that influence it."
Also available at: http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding/State-of-the-Climate-2014.aspx
P 551.6994 STA

Exploring evolution
Michael Alan Park
London : Vivays, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
576.8 PAR

Skullbone Plains Tasmania, 26 February – 2 March 2012
Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study, 2014
Report on a six-day Bush Blitz conducted on Skullbone Plains Reserve.
577.099463 SKU

The flaming desert: arid Australia – a fire shaped landscape
Peter Latz
Alice Springs: P. Latz, 2007
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
577.2409942 LAT

Key to lichens on twigs
Pat Wolseley, Peter James & Diccon Alexander
Shrewsbury, England : Field Studies Council, 2002
A folded colour booklet for use in the field.
ANBG copy donated by Stephen Skinner, February 2014
P 579.70941 WOL

The Cambridge illustrated glossary of botanical terms
Michael Hickey & Clive King
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
580.3 HIC

Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne and Melbourne strategic tree plan 2009-18: from seed to senescence
Kiah Martin
Melbourne : Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, 2008
Also available at: http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/RBG_Strategic_Tree_Plan_2009-18.pdf
P 580.739451 ROY

Pathfinders in Tasmanian botany: an honour roll of people connected through naming Tasmanian plants
Dick Burns
Devonport, Tas : Tasmanian Arboretum Inc., 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
580.922946 BUR

Jewel of the Australian desert: native peach (quandong)
Neville Bonney
Tantanoola, SA : N Bonney, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
581.6320994 BON

Medicinal plants in Australia. Volume 4, An antipodean apothecary
Cheryll J Williams
Dural, NSW : Rosenberg, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
581.6340994 WIL

Weeds of the Monaro: a guide to identification and control
Jackie Miles
[New South Wales : Dept. of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources], 2007
P 581.652099447 MIL

Vegetation survey and assessment: a practical guide for the management of native vegetation
Darren Bayley, David Brouwer
Tocal : NSW Agriculture, 2004
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
581.709944 BAY

A review of dipterocarps: taxonomy, ecology and silviculture
Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M Turnbull, (eds)
Bogor : Center for International Forestry Research, 1998
ANBG copy donated by John Turnbull, February 2014
583.624 REV

14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration, 27 September to 19 December 2013
Lugene B Bruno & Carolina L Roy
Pittsburgh, PA : Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 2013
ANBG copy donated by Nilavan Adams, March 2014
743.7 INT

A botanical life: Robert David Fitzgerald
Penny Olsen
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
743.9340994 FIT

Capturing flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art
Richard Aitken ... [et al.]
Ballarat : Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
743.9340994 CAP

Digital plant photography
Adrian Davies
London : Bloomsbury, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
778.934 DAV

The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills: forgotten narratives
Ian D Clark & Fred Cahir (eds.)
Collingwood, Vic : CSIRO Publishing, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
994.03 ABO

RARE BOOK COLLECTION

Familiar trees, new edn.
GS Boulger
London : Cassell, 1906-1907
3 volumes, ANBG set donated by Judy West, March 2014
Rare 582.160941 BOU

The tree book
David G Stead
Sydney : Shakespeare Head, [1933?]
ANBG copy donated by Stephen Skinner, February 2014
Rare 582.160994 STE

The cultivation of mushrooms
WF Bewley & J Harnett
London : Shepherd & Hosking, 1934
ANBG copy donated by Stephen Skinner, February 2014
Rare 635.8 BEW

ART COLLECTION

Stellaria pungens, Exocarpos nanus, Ranunculus anemoneus, and Aciphylla glacialis
Helen Fitzgerald
Original watercolours of alpine wild flowers.
Donated to the ANBG by Helen Fitzgerald, 13 March 2014.
Art 61, 62, 63 and 64

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Growing Friends record of meeting 1 March 2014

Thursday talks Printed copies of PowerPoint presentations
6/3/14 – The endangered grassland earless dragon / Lisa Doucette
20/3/14 – A year (or two) at Kew / Tim Entwisle
27/3/14 – Plants and salty soils / Rana Munns

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

Psoroglaena halmaturina sp. nov. (lichenised Ascomycota, Verrucariaceae) from Kangaroo Island, South Australia
PM McCarthy & G Kantvilas
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 26, part 1, 2013, pp. 1-4

Two new species of Sarcogyne (lichenised Ascomycota: Acarosporaceae) from central and southern Australia
PM McCarthy, P.M. & G Kantvilas
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 26, part 2, pp. 15-21

Placynthium australiense sp. nov. (lichenised Ascomycota, Placynthiaceae) from South Australia
PM McCarthy & G Kantvilas
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 27, part 1, 2014, pp.

Calandrinia mirabilis (Portulacaceae), a spectacular new species from Western Australia with notes on its ecology, seed germination and horticultural potential
JG West & RJ Chinnock
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 26, part 4, pp. 97-102

Ex situ conservation at the ANBG
Lottie Boardman (NERP Summer Scholar)
Decision Point, issue 78, April 2014, pp. 13-14
Available at: http://www.decision-point.com.au/