ASBS Newsletter
Number 149, December 2011Contents
From the President . . . . . . . . . . 1
ASBS Inc. business . . . . . . . . . . 2
2011 Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. –Minutes . . . . . . . . . . 2
ASBS President’s Report 2010-2011 . . . . . . . . . . 4
ASBS Treasurer’s Report 2010-11 . . . . . . . . . . 7
Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award for 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund September 2011 Round . . . . . . . . . . 16
Reminders to members . . . . . . . . . . 16
Annual fees are now due . . . . . . . . . . 16
Applications to two ASBS research grant schemes due by March 14th . . . . . . . . . . 16
Call for Newsletter reports from Eichler research grant recipients . . . . . . . . . . 16
Annual ASBS Conference in Perth 23rd–26th September . . . . . . . . . . 16
Articles . . . . . . . . . . 17
Why is taxonomy still presented to the world as books? . . . . . . . . . . 17
Advertisement: Coates Wildlife Tours . . . . . . . . . . 19
Athroisma laciniatum DC. (Asteraceae), a new record for Australia . . . . . . . . . . 23
Safeguarding Australia’s flora . . . . . . . . . . 26
The view from Kew . . . . . . . . . . 28
When a city falls – how is the Allan Herbarium at Lincoln
near Christchurch (New Zealand) coping after 14 months of earthquakes? . . . . . . . . . . 31
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . 32
Gillian Perry (née Jenkins) 19th October 1943 – 22nd August 2011 . . . . . . . . . . 32
Michael Perry’s eulogy . . . . . . . . . . 34
Peter Taylor of Kew (1926-2011) . . . . . . . . . . 37
Botanical curiosity . . . . . . . . . . 39
Deaths . . . . . . . . . . 40
David Symon . . . . . . . . . . 4
Michael Lazarides . . . . . . . . . . 40
Bernard Verdcourt . . . . . . . . . . 40
Denis Gibbons . . . . . . . . . . 41
News . . . . . . . . . . 41
New faces at HO . . . . . . . . . . 41
Award for the Rainforest Key . . . . . . . . . . 42
State Herbarium of South Australia publications now online . . . . . . . . . . 44
ABRS report . . . . . . . . . . 44
ASBS Inc. business (cont.) . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Common Seal of the Society - a phantom no more! . . . . . . . . . . 45
Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . 46
Publishing in the Life Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 46
A biography of J.D. Hooker . . . . . . . . . . 48
Antarctic palaeontology . . . . . . . . . . 50
South American palaeobotany – the comprehensive account . . . . . . . . . . 51
An updated annotated illustrated guide to south-east Australian weeds . . . . . . . . . . 54
A manual for restoring Perth’s coastal flora . . . . . . . . . . 56
A review of the “Flora of Hong Kong” volumes . . . . . . . . . . 58
Books of interest . . . . . . . . . . 60
Websites of interest . . . . . . . . . . 61
Wallich and Indian Natural History . . . . . . . . . . 61
Amalie Dietrich’s specimens in Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . 61
A new booklet from the Taxonomy Research & Information Network . . . . . . . . . . 62
Current and coming exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . 62
Napoleon exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria . . . . . . . . . . 62
Travelling von Guerard exhibition visits Canberra and Queensland . . . . . . . . . . 62
Chapter Conveners . . . . . . . . . . 63
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions . . . . . . . . . . 63
ASBS Publications . . . . . . . . . . 64