ASBS Newsletter
Number 171, June 2017
Contents
- From the President
- 2017 Conference1
- Gender equity1
- Notice. Nominations for membership of the 2017–18 Council1
- Membership2
- Decadal Plan3
- Notice of 2017 Annual General Meeting3
- Notice. An invitation to the joint ASBS/SASB conference in Adelaide in November 20175
- Eichler Research Fund reports
- Rare and endangered Eucalyptus magnificata: taxonomy, genetic diversity and demography.6
- A review of the subtribe Neurachninae Clayton & Renvoize (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) using DNA sequences7
- Articles
- Nancy Burbidge admitted to the Australian Women’s Pioneer Hall of Fame8
- Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM, DSc9
- The history of the Nancy Burbidge memorials11
- For the greater glory of God. A dedication to the memory of Nancy Burbidge17
- The Eileen Ramsay collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria18
- A background to Eileen Ramsay’s botanising22
- Preiss’s account of his Western Australian travels24
- An online multi-access identification key to Cassinia, Ozothamnus and their satellite genera26
- Decadal Plan
- The Taxonomy 2028 Challenge – shaping the future of biosystematics and taxonomy in Australasia27
- News
- Leadership changes at the Allan Herbarium28
- News from the West29
- Academy funding of Decadal Plan32
- SASB Membership – dues32
- A new look for ALA32
- Queensland’s first fully-comprehensive regional ecosystems map coverage32
- Congratulations Dr McLay33
- Aussie in Top 10 species for 201733
- "Twin" Daviesia species33
- Buried audit33
- Great Barrier Reef33
- $411M committed for getting rid of fire ants34
- The oldest fossil mushroom34
- Big bang of Amorphophallus flowering34
- Notice. 2017 Membership Fees; Prospective Members34
- Find your inner child35
- ABRS report35
- Web sites of interest
- reCollections: a journal of museums and collections36
- Chief Curiosity Correspondent36
- Treenet36
- ArbNet36
- Points of view
- Thoughts on authorship37
- Taxonomy chaos hampers conservation!37
- Can Facebook be used by scientists to combat disinformation?38
- Items of interest
- Informational confusion – words you wish you had said39
- The profitability of scientific publishing39
- Accessing pay-walled papers legitimately39
- Australian origin for Pohutakawa40
- An analysis of changes to the code respecting e-publication40
- Better access to DNA results from herbarium specimens40
- Improving accessibility to old tropical botanical collections40
- Herbarium exposure for the wrong reasons41
- ... and for the right reasons41
- Have there been any biosecurity breaches caused by Herbarium specimens?41
- A whole collection under threat of destruction42
- The vascular plant holdings of Paris42
- The Nagoya Protocol42
- Obituary
- Antonius (Tony) Mircea Moscal 16 March 1928–21 May 201743
- In memoriam
- Commemorating Enid L. Robertson (1925–2016)46
- New books and reports47
- Coming annual conference
- Joint ASBS/SASB Conference, Adelaide, 26-29 November 2017.
- Systematics 2017: Integrating Systematics for Conservation and Ecology50
- A picture from the past50
- Chapter conveners51
- Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions51
- About the Society and becoming a member52
- ASBS publications52
- About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors53
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