ASBS Newsletter

Number 130, March 2007

Contents

From the President ................. 1

ASBS Inc. business
New members ................. 2
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund Committee report ................. 2
Notice of Annual ConferenceDarwin, 24 th –28 th September 2007 ................. 3
Notice of Annual General Meeting Darwin, Monday 24 th September 2007 ................. 3
Nominations for Council office ................. 3
Reminder on payment of annual Membership Fees ................. 3

Eichler Research Fund reports ................. 4
Evolution of Nicotiana L. (Solanaceae) in Australia ................. 4
An investigation into the molecular phylogenetics of Jedda multicaulis (Thymelaeaceae) .............. 6

Articles
Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) in the global and Australasian biodiversity communities ................. 8
Environment (and agriculture) the big loser in closure of CRCs ................. 10
Database of Robert Brown’s Australian Botanical Specimens available online in FloraBase ..... 12

Deaths
Ed Cross (1977–2007) ................. 13
South Australian butterfly expert Robert Hilson Fisher OAM (1923–2007) ................. 13
New Zealand phycologist and botanical artist Nancy Adams(1926–2007) ................. 13

News
News from the Western Australian Herbarium ................. 14
And from Canberra ................. 14
AM for Wal Whalley ................. 14
Life Science Identifiers: a computing workshop of global significance ................. 15

Miscellanea
Honouring 300 years since Linnaeus’s birth ................. 15
Want to learn more about Linnaeus? ................. 15
Those bumblebees again ................. 15
Food for thought ................. 15
What you have to do to raise money for science: the new look Bob Hill ................. 16
A plea for employment of more systematists .................. 16
Margaret Flockton Award Exhibition 2007 ................. 16
Australian Solanum species a weed in London ................. 16
Simplifying systematics – why didn’t we think of this? ................. 16
2007 Science and Innovation Awards ................. 16
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for 2007 .................. 16
Want to nominate your favourite nursery for its weed awareness? .................16

Conference report
5 th International Southern Connection Conference
University of Adelaide, 21 st –25 th January 2007 ................. 17

ABRS report ................. 19

ABLO report ................. 20

Book reviews
Identification of Eucalypts in south-eastern Australia made easier ................. 22
A new South Australian Grass flora ................. 26
Tasmania’s rich botanical history ................. 28
An illustrated history of Adelaide Botanic Garden ................. 30

Book notices
Books on Western Australian and global exploration ................. 32
Australian exploration and taxonomic, popular and indigenous botany ................. 33

From TAXACOM ................. 34

Websites of interest ................. 34

The war on weeds
Changes to Australia’s Permitted Seeds List ................. 36
From the Weeds CRC ................. 37
Notice : Book reviewer wanted: Flora of Australia volume 2 .................37

Coming conferences
Tercentenary of the Birth of Carl Linnaeus. A festival of systematics and history! ................. 38
Biodiversity Extinction Crisis Conference – A Pacific Response ................. 38
Society for Australian Systematic Biologists ................. 38
The 4th International Conference: The Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons &
The 5th International Symposium: Grass Systematics and Evolution ................. 38

Requests for assistance
Material wanted: Juncus pallidus and allies ................. 38
Chance to get your naturalised lavender species identified by the expert ................. 38

The front cover illustration ................. 38

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