ASBS Newsletter

Contents

• From the President
•      A new President1
•           Notice. Annual General Meeting1
•           Notice. 2019–2020 Council nominations2
•      The Wellington ASBS conference2
•      ASBS funding2
•      Genomes for Australian Plants (GAP)3
•      Some housekeeping.3
•      Postscript3
• Taxonomy Australia report3
• Articles
•      Databasing of the global collections at the National Herbarium of Victoria7
•      The strange case of the stolen butterflies11
•      Iles Stériles or iles stériles: a location of varying precision in 19th Century collections13
• Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP)
•      Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) project update14
• ABRS report17
• Coming conferences
•      Taxonomy for Conservation – Ruia mai i Rangiātea: ASBS-NZPCN 2019 Conference, Wellington update18
•      Other coming conferences
•           SASB conference 201920
•           2nd Australian Native Bee Conference20
•           BGANZ 2019 Congress20
•           Australian Garden History Society –40th Annual National Conference 201920
• News
•      Queen's birthday honours list 201921
•      Retirement and recognition21
•      Funding for new NSW Herbarium included in budget21
•      Digitisation at the Allan Herbarium (CHR)22
•      The Great Weeds Hunt Aotearoa22
•      Foulden Maar fossil site under threat from mining22
•      An official declaration of climate emergency.22
•      Human responsibility for imminent extinction of one million species22
•      Global analysis of extinct plants.23
•      Red Hot Plant List23
•      Putting a monetary value on collections.24
•      A monetary value on names for new species.24
•      Nation-wide assessment and photo competition for Eucalyptus s.lat.24
•      Eucalypts genetics conference 201924
•      Bavarians for biodiversity24
•      Biocontrol moths to halt spread of horehound in New Zealand.25
•      New Lucid releases.25
•      Archives in Britain now available through Trove25
• Points of view
•      Native vs naturalised26
•      Slave trade26
•      Changing language with respect to climate change26
•      Graduation speeches27
• Items of interest
•      Spend two hours a week in nature to feel well27
•      Call for relook at safety of plant biocontrol with arthropods27
•      Nutritional enhancement by genetic modification – a review27
•      Flora of Myanmar28
•      The complexities of Salvia.28
•      The desert raisin – hidden depths28
•      Duodichogamous flowers28
•      Water discovery in ancient underground valley in northern South Australia.28
•      Using goats in the battle against wildfires in California29
•      Olive killer disease in Europe.29
•      The world's largest mangrove ecosystem is becoming homogeneous29
•      Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives29
•      The role of living collections in taxonomic research29
•      What is a pleurogram?29
•      An analysis of emoji – we need more plant examples30
•      Mycorrhizal fungi influence global plant biogeography30
•      Fungi accumulating gold30
•      Fossil fungus means origin of fungi earlier than thought30
•      Dead Sea fossils hint at earlier start for some ancient plants30
•      She sells sea shells by the sea shore30
•      The old university model is becoming obsolete31
•      Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal31
•      Fake paper accepted by four journals31
•      Preprints – for and against and the status of names published in them31
•      Women pioneers in freshwater ecology32
•      JSTOR Text Analyzer32
•      Dogs with increasing roles in conservation32
•      Running an inclusive scientific conference32
•      The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture33
•      Rediscovered plant illustrations by artist/botanist from 1800s Cuba33
• Websites of interest
•      Threatened Species Recovery Hub33
•      Helping identify cultivated plants33
•      Behind the paper backgrounds Nature Research34
•      The Society of Herbarium Curators34
•      Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania34
• Deaths
•      Arthur Weston (1932–2019)35
•      Harold Trevor Clifford (1927–2019)36
•      George Argent (1941–2019)36
•      Margaret Stones37
•      H.B.S. Womersley (1922–2011)37
• Events
•      Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand volumes 2 and 3 launched in Lincoln37
•           Part of Pat Brownsey's speech37
•           From Ilse Breitwieser's speech40
• Book reviews
•      Another book on orchids41
•      Tree titbits and treats from Hong Kong and southern China42
• New books
•      Printed publications44
•      Downloadables49
• 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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