New in the ANBG Library & Archive

November-December 2013

last issue: September/October 2013

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

Kakadu: the making of a national park
David Lawrence
Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2000
333.7830994295 LAW

The great naturalists
Robert Huxley, ed.
London : Thames & Hudson in association with the Natural History Museum, London, 2007
ANBG copy donated by Meg Henderson November 2013
508.0922 GRE

A guide to the geology and landforms of central Australia
R.B. Thompson
Alice Springs :Northern Territory Geological Survey, 1991
559.42 THO

Uluru & Kata Tjuta: a geological history
I.P. Sweet & I.H. Crick
Canberra : Australian Geological Survey Organisation, 1992
559.4291 SWE

The Amber treasure trove. Part 1. The Tadeusz Giecewicz’s collection at the Museum of the Earth, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz (ed.)
Warsaw : Oficyna Wydawnicza Sadyba, 2001
ANBG copy donated by Alice Wells, October 2013
560.4509438 AMB

Darwin
Adrian Desmond and James Moore
London : Penguin, 1992
Comprehensive biography of the author of The Origin of Species.
576.82092 DAR

Eden project : the guide
London : Eden Project Books, 2013
ANBG copy donated by John & Maureen Connolly, November 2013.
580.734237 EDE

A census of the vascular plants of Tasmania, and, Index to The student’s flora of Tasmania and Flora of Tasmania online, 2013 edn
M.L. Baker & M.F. De Salas
Hobart : Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2013
Also available at : http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/77607/2013_Census_of_Tasmanian_Vascular_Plants.pdf
Ref 581.9946 BAK

Cacti, other succulents, and unusual xerophytes of southern Arizona
Matthew Brian Johnson
Tucson, Arizona : Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, 2004
ANBG copy donated by Joe Miller October 2013.
583.5609791 JOH

Melaleucas: their botany, essential oils and uses
Joseph J. Brophy, Lyndley A. Craven, John C. Doran
Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2013 (ACIAR monograph no. 156)
Includes callistemons.
Ref 583.765 BRO

The Australian wildlife year : a month-by-month guide to nature
Sydney : Reader’s Digest, 1989
591.994 AUS

Birds of Australian gardens / paintings by Peter Trusler; text by Tess Kloot, Ellen M. McCulloch
Sydney : Rigby, 1980
ANBG copy donated by Meg Henderson November 2013
F 598.0994 TRU

The botanist and the vintner: how wine was saved for the world
Christy Campbell
Chapel Hill, Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
ANBG copy donated by Annette Wilson October 2013.
634.827 CAM

The art of botanical illustration
Lys de Bray
London : Quantum Books, 2005
ANBG copy donated by Meg Henderson November 2013
F 743.7 DEB

Foliage
Harold Feinstein; introduction by Sydney Eddison; botanical notes by Greg Piotrowski
London : Thames & Hudson, 2001
100 colour photographs capturing the intricacies, colour and natural beauty of foliage.
ANBG copy donated by Meg Henderson November 2013
F 779.34 FEI

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby
Kent Town, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2004
ANBG copy donated by Meg Henderson November 2013
919.4042 FOR

To Ayers Rock and beyond
Bill Harney
Bayswater, Vic. : Ian Drakeford Publishing, 1988
The story of Uluru.
919.4291 HAR

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, COURSES

International Biogeography Society Early Career Conference 2014
7-10 January 2014
Canberra, ACT
http://www.biogeography.org/html/Meetings/2014ECC/index.html

IUCN World Parks Congress
12-19 November 2014
Sydney
http://www.worldparkscongress.org

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