ASBS Newsletter
Number 164 September 2015
Contents
- From the President
- Role for ASBS in the Flora of Australia online 1
- ASBS 2015 Canberra 1
- Eichler memorial plaque ceremony 1
- Prospective changes to our grants schemes 1
- Thanks to Phil Garnock-Jones 1
- Kevin Thiele leaving PERTH 1
- Alison McCusker 1
- Notice. 2015 Annual General Meeting reminder1
- ASBS Inc. business
- Council's new advisory committees active 2
- Grants Policy Standing Committee 2
- Eichler Research Fund report
- Molecular systematics and biogeography of Logania R.Br. (Loganiaceae) 2
- Articles
- Adventures in plant anatomy – not just a pigment of my imagination. 4
- Advertisements. Christmas presents, anyone?10
- Role of chromosomes in systematics, evolution and phylogenies 12
- Further thoughts
- Fossil names: homonyms affecting the names of Australian species of Acacia, Grevillea and Hakea16
- The life of Ernest Bickford – an addendum 17
- Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Free back issues available.17
- Point of view
- How long does it take for an alien species to get citizenship? 18
- A milestone 22
- News
- Algal designs – and a hint of a new herbarium for Melbourne? 23
- Fungal accolades forTom May and Pam Catcheside 23
- Tanya Scharaschkin wins award 23
- Another botany school bites the dust 24
- Flora News
- Northern Territory flora online 24
- Viclist to VicFlora 24
- New edition of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania 25
- Flora of New Caledonia 25
- Taxonomy in our media 25
- Doris Sinkora – a remarkable life 25
- Alex George's garden on ABC 25
- Moustached Kingfisher causes controversy 26
- New Zealand deer hunters fail taxonomy test 26
- Miscellanea
- Threats to plants, particularly orchids, by illegal trade in SE Asia and Iran 26
- Papua New Guinea tok
- Anniversaries for PNG and its National Herbarium 27
- "Telefomin trousers" 27
- A pecking order 28
- Are 75 percent of Australia's living species unknown? 28
- 3D printing 29
- Alice Springs native gardens celebrates anniversary 29
- Updated classification of Orchidaceae 29
- Accessing names published in old Botanic Gardens seed lists 29
- Artists inspired by work in herbaria 30
- A work "Herbarium" not so inspired? 30
- Teaching economic botany 30
- Notice. 2015 Membership Fees30
- Obituary
- The life and letters of Laurie (L.G.) Adams 31
- ABRS report 38
- Book reviews
- Having fun with fungi 39
- A labour of love continued: Allan Cunningham before Australia (and James Bowie before South Africa) 41
- Cylindrical-stemmed genera of feral opuntioid cacti naturalised in Australia 43
- New books 45
- Chapter conveners 47
- Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions 47
- ASBS publications 48
- About the Society and becoming a member 49
- About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors 49
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