ASBS Newsletter
Number 136, September 2008
Contents
From the President .................... 1
ASBS Inc. business
2008 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. .................... 2
Attachment 1 - President’s report .................... 2
Attachment 2 - Treasurer’s report .................... 4
Attachment 3 - Newsletter report .................... 11
Welcome to the new editors .................... 12
Nancy Burbidge Medal .................... 13
Nominations for the Nancy Burbidge Medal .................... 13
Nancy Burbidge Lecture
Old Australian landscapes yield new perspectives
on biodiversity evolution and conservation ....... 15
Eichler Research Fund Report
Diversity and evolution of the mycorrhizal fungi associated with
the Diuris punctata species complex in Victoria .................... 16
Articles
Exhibiting the history of The University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU) .................... 22
News
Adelaide ASBS Conference .................... 25
Science Show and taxonomy .................... 25
Tough time ahead for universities .................... 25
Herbarium weed profiles .................... 25
Kew’s Millenium Seed Bank in need of ongoing funding .................... 25
Evidence for first appearance of eucaryotes and cyanobacteria reassessed .................... 25
Fungimap Conference V .................... 26
Zoologists considering electronic publication .................... 26
Death notices
Dr Roger Foster Black (1923– 2008) .................... 26
Ding Hou (1921–2008) .................... 26
Conference reports
An analysis and a vision for the publishing of plant and fungal taxonomy in Australia .................... 27
Publishing systematics discussion session .................... 36
Citation, citation, citation: choosing the best journal real estate .................... 38
Zootaxa and its achievements ....................38
Thrown in at the deep end: editorial experiences with Nuytsia 17 .................... 39
Outcomes of the teaching systematics discussion session .................... 39
Report of Monocots 4 / Grasses 5, Copenhagen, 11–15 August, 2008 .................... 41
ABLO reports
Final report .................... 44
First report .................... 46
ABRS report .................... 48
Miscellanea
Swiss Orchid Foundation .................... 49
Book reviews
Setting new standards: an account and key to Australia’s smut fungi .................... 50
Eremophilas for Australian gardens .................... 52
Revised edition of Plant Names .................... 53
Exhibition
Lost gardens of Sydney .................... 54
Book notices
New books on orchids .................... 55
New book on banksias .................... 55
South Australian wildflowers .................... 55
New Ellis Rowan History .................... 55
New botanic gardens of the world .................... 55
Citrus and banana histories ....................55
Who owns what? .................... 55
British Botanic Gardens .................... 55
Lost Sydney gardens .................... 55
How naturalists worked in the 1800s .................... 56
Science in the romantic age .................... 56
New SA National Parks Guide released .................... 56
Food for thought
On conferences: are they necessary? .................... 56
On societies and the responsibilities of being a member .................... 57
A government’s attempt to save one of the world’s species-rich regions .................... 58
Comparing the value of outputs across disciplines .................... 58
Miscellanea
A botanical curiosity .................... 58
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