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View PDF for This Newsletter Newsletter No. 160 September 2014 Price: $5.00 AUSTRALASIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY SOCIETY INCORPORATED Council President Vice President Bill Barker Mike Bayly State Herbarium of South Australia School of Botany PO Box 2732, Kent Town, SA 5071 University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010 Australia Australia Tel: (+61)/(0) 427 427 538 Tel: (+61)/(0) 3 8344 5055 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary Treasurer Frank Zich John Clarkson Australian Tropical Herbarium Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service E2 Building, J.C.U. Cairns Campus PO Box 156 PO Box 6811 Mareeba, Qld 4880 Cairns, Qld 4870 Australia Australia Tel: (+61)/(0) 7 4048 4745 Tel: (+61)/(0) 7 4059 5014 Mobile: (+61)/(0) 437 732 487 Fax: (+61)/(0) 7 4232 1842 Fax: (+61)/(0) 7 4092 2366 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Councillor Councillor Ilse Breitwieser Leon Perrie Allan Herbarium Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd PO Box 467 PO Box 69040 Wellington 6011 Lincoln 7640 New Zealand New Zealand Tel: (+64)/(0) 4 381 7261 Tel: (+64)/(0) 3 321 9621 Fax: (+64)/(0) 4 381 7070 Fax: (+64)/(0) 3 321 9998 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Other Constitutional Bodies Public Officer Affiliate Society Anna Monro Papua New Guinea Botanical Society Australian National Botanic Gardens GPO Box 1777 Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Hansjörg Eichler Research Committee Tel: +61 (0)2 6250 9530 Philip Garnock-Jones Email: [email protected] David Glenny Betsy Jackes Greg Leach ASBS Website Nathalie Nagalingum www.asbs.org.au Christopher Quinn Chair: Mike Bayly, Vice President Webmasters Grant application closing dates: Anna Monro Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund: Australian National Botanic Gardens on March 14th and September 14th each year. GPO Box 1777 Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award: Canberra, ACT 2601 in May 2015, 2016. Australia Tel: +61 (0)2 6250 9530 Email: [email protected] Murray Fagg Australian National Botanic Gardens Cover image: Ternstroemia monostigma W.R.Barker Tel: +61 (0)2 6250 9561 (Pentaphylacaceae), a New Guinea endemic. Male and Email: [email protected] female flowers and parts (minus petals), fruit, seed in section. Artist Taikika Iwagu. With permission of the National Herbarium of Papua New Guinea. Publication dates of previous issue Australas. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newslett. 159 (June 2014): ASBS Web site: 21st August 2014; Printed version: 28th August 2014 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 160 (September 2014) From the President Embracing our New Zealand constituency and stormy time in office. Highlighted in the The coming Conference and Annual General media has been his government’s legacy in Meeting at Massey University, Palmerston the social arena (health, education, Aboriginal North, is hard upon us. It will be our second rights, etc.). In those heady times governments conference in New Zealand in the last few increased investment in taxonomic science years, following the successful conference at and services. At the national level the Lincoln, near Christchurch, in 2010. Commonwealth established the Australian Our Society – and the Council of Heads of Biological Resources Study, which soon Austral(as)ian Herbaria – were founded in became the main vehicle for funding taxonomic 1973 at at time when the Australian mood was research and the Flora of Australia project. for visionary change in the approach to society This change was also reflected in politics and and environment. This mood was shared action at the State and local government level. by both young and established taxonomists Such change resulted from the progressive and heralded a long period of substantial public attitudes. A new generation participated investment in biosystematics in scientific and with the established in forming a rational technical positions, research, publication and collective vision for science and the infrastructure. environment, which gained a high political As we move to consolidate and grow the profile. Are we seeing signs of a similar Society’s New Zealand participation, the mood groundswell today? of today is quite different, with government Progress with the White Paper policy tending to be increasingly dollar-driven. The White Paper project seeks to influence I believe that Council must be vigilant to and join such a groundswell. I can report appropriately nurture our presence in New recent progress, with activity in developing Zealand until the understanding of the benefits key indicators for the evidence base of of involvement in our Society are as embedded the value and health of our taxonomic and in the activities of this new group of students systematics knowledge and infrastructure, and and systematists as they have grown to be on in putting together our case in the overarching the Australian side of the Tasman. documentation. Key has been the appointment Reflecting on the passing of Gough Whitlam of an already active Katharina Schulte as It has been remarkable to see the passion the project coordinator. I look forward to a forum and informal workshop at the coming across the political spectrum that still remains conference. in our community, media and politicians for the change that took place in the early 1970s, A big thanks to our Newsletter contributors brought to light in celebrating the legacy of What a remarkable response to the call for Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. contributions to address a prospect of a lean th After many years of post-war conservative 160 issue, resulting in the suite of articles and leadership reflecting strongly held traditions, two unsolicited book reviews. Whitlam led his federal government in a brief Bill Barker Deaths It was sad to hear news of the death of Laurie away peacefully on Friday night, after being Adams of the Australian National Herbarium ill for a short time. Laurie started work in th on 7 November. From 1970 on, we were always CSIRO in 1962 in what was to become the greated by a warm smile and talked widely Australian National Herbarium. He retired in across taxonomy each time we visited. Here 1988, but continued to work in the herbar- is an immediate tribute from CANB Facebook ium as an Honorary Research Fellow, more site and a link to his current biography on their or less full time until a few months before his website (Web ref.). Eds. death. Laurie leaves behind a rich legacy of R.I.P. Laurie Adams. Australian National specimens, identifications, Flora treatments, Herbarium stalwart Laurie Adams passed identification tools and other botanical pub- Laurie Adams R.I.P. 1 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 160 (September 2014) lications. He was the herbarium's resident Web ref. 1. http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/ botanical Latin guru. He will be missed by adams-laurie.html his friends and colleagues. ASBS Inc. business Latest grants through the representatives of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists and James Fitzsimons ASBS research funds from The Nature Conservancy. One award Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund, September of $5000 was offered to James Shelley, The 2014 Round University of Melbourne, for a project on This round we had five applications. Grants freshwater fish of the Kimberley. were awarded to the following two students. In the plant category we received just one • Janet Gagul, James Cook University: application, which was also assessed by James Systematics and evolution of the genus Fitzsimons in conjunction with the ASBS Elaeocarpus L. (Elaeocarpaceae). $2,000. Research Committee. Our decision was to not • John Thompson, Queensland University make an award to the single applicant in this of Technology: Systematics of the round. This was partly on a technicality to Ancistrachne group (Panicoideae, Paniceae, do with funding eligibility and partly because Neiurachninae) using morphological and of the nature of the application. An outcome molecular data. $1,850. of this decision is that we will have funding Unsuccessful applicants were provided with to offer three awards, in total, across the next feedback on their applications and we have two rounds of ACT Awards (May 2015 and encouraged them to resubmit in future rounds. May 2016). These botany awards provide As usual, the efforts of the ASBS Research valuable research support, including $5000 Committee in assessing these grant applications toward research costs and up to $2000 toward is greatly appreciated. The committee members attendance of two ASBS conferences. As such in this grant round were Nathalie Nagalingum, we strongly encourage supervisors to promote Chris Quinn, Phil Garnock-Jones, Greg Leach, these awards to their research students, and we David Glenny. will advertise them again in the lead up to the next closing date. After several years on the committee Nathalie Mike Bayly Nagalingum has decided to step down and Chair, ASBS Research Committee this current grant round will be her last. We extend our thanks to Nathalie for all her hard ASBS has its own work. We will be on the hunt for at least one new committee member before the next grant web domain name round! ASBS now has it’s own domain name www. asbs.org.au rather than its long-standing address The next round of applications for Eichler www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/. Our thanks to Greg grants will close on March 14th 2014. Whitbread for suggesting and implementing Australian Conservation Taxonomy Award, this change. The web content is still hosted on September 2014 Australian National Botanic Gardens’s servers The Australian Conservation Award aims to so long as that is acceptable, but this link is support student research in systematics that hidden and our full responsibility for content of contributes to biological conservation. It is the site is reflected in the web address (URL) supported by The Nature Conservancy and the and society contact email addresses.
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