ASBS Newsletter

Contents

• From the President
•      Taxonomy Australia. . . . .1
•      Genomics for Australian Plants – GAP. . . . .1
•      Now available – complete set of back issues of ASBS Newsletter. . . . .1
•      Signing off. . . . .2
• Taxonomy Australia report
•      Introducing Taxonomy Australia. . . . .2
•      Notice. 2018 Annual General Meeting. . . . .3
• Articles
•      “Bagster”: lapsus calami for Baxter (William). . . . ..4
•      Note on the type of Acacia latifolia Benth.. . . . .6
•      Plant blindness. . . . .6
• Awards
•      Allan Mere Award to Ilse Breitweiser. . . . .7
•      BioOne Ambassador Award to Ben Anderson. . . . ..8
• ABRS report. . . . .9
• News
•      Wattle day and Wattle. . . . ..10
•      Brazil’s National Museum fire. . . . .10
•      IAPT embraces the web and social media. . . . .11
•      Use of art to warn of climate change effects. . . . .11
•      Branch Out features Barbara Briggs. . . . .11
•      Oops!. . . . .11
•      How are we communicating the importance of Taxonomy?. . . . .12
•      First State of the World’s Fungi meeting held at Kew. . . . .12
•      Plants miss out at Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference. . . . ..12
•      Gone Mallee. . . . .12
•      Contrasting thoughts of scientific communicators on their subject. . . . .12
• Websites of interest
•      Brain pickings. . . . ..13
•      Australia’s Science Channel. . . . .13
•      Beating around the Bush. . . . ..13
• Points of view
•      Scientific publishing monopoly to end?. . . . ..13
•      End of a journal?. . . . ..13
•      The twenty most charismatic species. . . . ..13
•      Case for introducing rhinos to Australia. . . . ..14
•      Minimising taxonomic change?. . . . ..14
• Items of interest
•      A demise of Antarctica’s ‘moss forests’?. . . . .14
•      Seagrass recovery. . . . .14
•      Great green balls of algae. . . . .15
•      Mangrove conservation headaches. . . . ..15
•      How did the boabs get to Australia?. . . . .15
•      Old African baobabs dying. . . . ..15
•      Losing Earth: the decade we almost stopped climate change. . . . .15
•      Herbarium specimens helping to understand changes associated with urbanisation. . . . ..16
•      Herbarium specimens used to study herbivory changes with time. . . . .16
•      “Herbaria are data gold mines”. . . . .16
•      Myrtle rust. . . . .17
•      “New guidelines for biological survey and mapped data (revised 16th August 2018)”. . . . .17
•      Is Australia’s EPBC Act effective?. . . . ..17
•      Ray Cranfield and lichens. . . . .17
•      Defining a genetically modified crop. . . . ..17
•      Authenticating Australian honey using pollen analysis. . . . .17
•      Bees, extinction and land clearance: getting your facts right.. . . . .18
•      Fire. . . . ..18
•      A cause for concern?. . . . .18
•      Refereeing advice. . . . .18
•      The Wardian Case. . . . .18
•      Pollination ecology review. . . . ..18
• ASBS Brisbane 2018 conference update. . . . .19
• Meeting and workshop reports
•      Australasian Herbarium collections managers attend Dunedin conference. . . . .20
•      Systematics workshop reveals diverse assemblage of budding systematists. . . . ..21
• Coming conferences
•      12th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference. Canberra; 11–15 November 2018. . . . .22
•      Taming the BEAST Down Under, Sydney: 17–22 February 2019. . . . .22
• Deaths
•      Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 – 15 August 2018. . . . .23
•      Text of a short informal talk by Joy Thompson to NSW Herbarium staff in 2003. . . . .27
•      Darrell Nairn Kraehenbuehl 21 Jan 1934 – 2 Aug 2018. . . . .28
•      Clara Marjorie Walpole Andrew (known as Marjorie) 28 Nov 1918 – 11 Oct 2018. . . . ..29
•      Neville Forde 1 May 1933 – 25 May 2018. . . . ..30
• New books
•      Downloadables. . . . .34
•      Three new journals. . . . ..34
• Chapter conveners. . . . .35
• Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .35
• About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .36
• ASBS publications. . . . .36
• About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .37

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