Australian National Botanic Gardens   LIBRARY BULLETIN

March 2010

last month: February

The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.

The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.

Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Focusing on the landscape : biodiversity in Australia’s National Reserve System
Canberra : Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2010
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.bushblitz.org.au/documents/abrs-focusing-on-the-landscape.pdf
333.780994 FOC

Macquarie dictionary, 5 th edn,
Susan Butler, editor.
Sydney : Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2009
Ref 423 MAC

State of the climate
[S.l.]: CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, 2010
A 6 p. snapshot.
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.csiro.au/resources/State-of-the-Climate.html
P 551.6994 STA

Australia ’s biodiversity and climate change
Will Steffen … [ et al.]
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO, 2009
577.220994 AUS

International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 8 th edn,
CD Brickell … [et al.]
Leuven, Belgium : 2009
580.14 INT

Curatorial practices for botanical gardens
Timothy C Hohn
Lanham, MD : Altamira Press, 2008
1. Introduction: Museums, public gardens, and collections -- 2. Governing collections: policies, plans, and manuals -- 3. Building collections -- 4. Documenting collections -- 5. Preserving collections -- 6. Collections research -- 7. Collections and public programs.
580.73 HOH

Plants at the margin : ecological limits and climate change
RMM Crawford
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008
1. Recognizing margins -- 2. Biodiversity in marginal areas -- 3. Resource acquisition in marginal habitats -- 4. Reproduction at the periphery - 5. Arctic and subarctic treelines and the tundra-taiga interface - 6. Plant survival in a warmer Arctic -- 7. Land plants at coastal margins -- 8. Survival at the water's edge -- 9. Woody plants at the margin -- 10. Plants at high altitudes -- 11. Man at the margins -- 12. Summary and conclusions.
581.722 CRA

The flora of North Stradbroke Island
K Stephens & D Sharp
Toowong, Qld. : Queensland Herbarium, 2009
581.99432 STE

Plants of Cape York : the compact guide
John Beasley
[Kuranda, Qld.]: The Author, 2009
581.99438 BEA

Flora of the Sydney region, 5 th edn,
Belinda J Pellow, Murray J Henwood, Roger C Carolin
Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009
REF 581.99441 PEL

Wattles of Tasmania
Marion H Simmons
Legana, Tas. : The Author, 2009
583.74809946 SIM

Genera palmarum : the evolution and classification of palms
John Dransfield … [et al.]
Kew : Kew Publishing, 2008
584.5 GEN

Illustrated flora of ferns & fern-allies of South Pacific islands
Takehisa Nakamura, Sadamu Matsumoto.
National Museum of Nature and Science, 2008
In Japanese with keys in English.
587.0996 ILL

Arable bryophytes : a field guide to the mosses, liverworts and hornworts of cultivated land in Britain and Ireland
Ron Porley
Hampshire, England : WildGuides, 2008
588.0941 POR

Moss flora of China, English version. Volume 7, Amblystegiaceae-Plagiotheciaceae
Hu Ren-liang, Wang You-fang, Marshall R Crosby (editors)
Beijing : Science Press : St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2008
588.20951 MOS

The top of the Top End: John Gilbert’s manuscript notes for John Gould on vertebrates from Port Essington and Cobourg Peninsula (Northern Territory, Australia); with comments on specimens collected during the settlement period 1838 to 1849, and subsequently
Clemency Fisher and John Calaby
Darwin, NT : Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 2009 (The Beagle, Supplement 4)
ABRS 596.0994295 FIS

Australian bats, 2 nd edn
Sue Churchill
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2008
599.40994 CHU

Taking stock of the Australian truffle industry
Barry Lee
Kingston, ACT : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2008
Also available via the Internet at: https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/downloads/08-124.pdf
P 635.80994 LEE

Collect and grow that seed : small Australian plants
Judy Barker … [et al.]
Northcote, Vic. : The Authors, 2009
635.95194 COL

Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation, volume 9 [Sp-Z]
W Rodger Elliot and David L Jones
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2010.
635.96760994 ELL

The art of plant evolution
W John Kress & Shirley Sherwood
Kew : Kew Publishing, 2009
758.5 KRE

Incredible ! The amazing story of the birth and rebirth of a natural treasure : Phillip Island, South Pacific
Peter Coyne
Belconnen, ACT : Petaurus Press, 2009
919.482 COY

RARE BOOK COLLECTION

The plant hunters : the adventures of the world’s greatest botanical explorers
Carolyn Fry
London : Andrew Deutsch, 2009
Includes images and facsimiles from the Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Rare F 580.7509 FRY

The vegetation of the Chatham-Islands
Ferdinand Mueller
Melbourne : Government Printer, 1864
Rare 581.99399 MUE

ANNUAL REPORTS

Friends of the Botanic Gardens [ Sydney] Inc. 27 th Annual report 2008-2009

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Mather, Joanna 2010, ‘Gardens project grows graduate skills’ , Australian Financial Review, 1 March 2010, p. 30
“Postgraduate students are measuring the carbon footprint of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens as part of a high-level work placement program …”

BotCamp teaches Web-savvy students about cataloguing plants
University of North Carolina ’s BotCamp is an innovative summer program designed to recruit students from underrepresented populations to the field of botany. The curriculum weaves together botany, environmental conservation, the use of social technologies and metadata literacy.
See: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/membership/2010/announcement4.htm?utm_source=...

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

ANBG Volunteer Guides’ Meeting minutes 16 Feb 2010
Growing Friends Record of meeting 6 Feb 2010, 6 March 2010

‘Living atlas … coming to a screen near you’, Ecos, no. 153, Feb-March 2010, pp. 24-25.
On the Atlas of Living Australia project.

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

Nursery & Garden Industry National Conference
19-22 April 2010
Darwin, NT
http://www.ngiaevents.com.au/conference2010

# National Parks – Can They Take the Heat ?
NPA ACT 2010 Symposium
7-8 May 2010
CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra, ACT
http://www.npaact.org.au

# Cradle of Creation
International Plant Propagator’s 38 th Australian Conference
13-16 May 2010
Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, WA
Pam Berryman, ph (07) 3829 9454 or pjberry@iprimus.com.au

# 8 th National Wildflower Conference
26-28 May 2010
Yarra Valley, Vic
http://www.wildflowersaustralia.com.au

Addressing Global Change: a New Agenda for Botanic Gardens
4 th BGCI Global Botanic Gardens Congress
13-18 June 2010
Dublin, Ireland
www.4GBGC.com

29 th International Seed Testing Congress
16-18 June 2010
Cologne, Germany
http://www.ista-cologne2010.de

Grevillea Hybrids & Cultivars : 8 th FJC Rogers Seminar
21-22 August 2010
East Gippsland, Victoria
Contact: Dawn Barr (03) 5156 4674

8 th International Flora Malesiana Symposium
23-27 August 2010
Singapore Botanic Gardens
http://www.sbg.org/fm8

# 11 th Meeting of International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
2-4 September 2010
Aurangabad, India
http://www.asdhabe.com/iopb/inde.html

Society for Growing Australian Plants (Qld Region) Inc 2010 State Conference
“Fragments of Green”
19-24 September 2010
Jacob Wells Environmental Education Centre, Qld
Enquiries to Bev Leggett: bleggett@australiaonline.net au or ph (07)3870 8517

# 8 th National Conference Australian Network for Plant Conservation
Planning Conservation to Achieving Restoration
28 Sept – 1 October 2010
Perth, WA
http://www.anpc.asn.au

# 13 th National Conference on Volunteering
27-29 October 2010
Sebel and Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne, Vic.
http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/conference

XVIII International Botanical Congress
24-30 July 2011
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
http://www.ibc2011.com/