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January 2011

last month: December

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

D’harawal seasons and climatic cycles
Frances Bodkin; illustrated by Lorraine Robertson
Sydney : The Authors, 2006
For children. Includes indigenous stories and a calendar poster for the Sydney region.
305.89915 BOD

Arts and culture in Australia : a statistical overview 2010
Canberra : Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010 (ABS catalogue no. 4172.0)
Includes statistics on botanical gardens.
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/cat/4172.0
P 306.48120994 ART

Four seasons of Gwangneung Forest
Pocheon : Korea National Arboretum, 2008
333.95095195 FOU

The down-to earth guide to global warming
Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
Sydney : Scholastic Australia, 2007
For children.
363.73874 DAV

Weather or not : it's a climate for change, 3 rd edn,
Caren Trafford; illustrations by David Wilsher
[Balmain, N.S.W.] : Etram Pty Ltd, c2006, 2007
For children.
551.6 TRA

Australia 's lost world : a history of Australia's backboned animals
Patricia Vickers-Rich, Leaellyn Suzanne Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich
Kenthurst, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, 1996
ANBG copy donated by the family of Meg Richardson, October 2010.
566.0994 VIC

The tangled bank : an introduction to evolution
Carl Zimmer
Greenwood Village , Colo. : Roberts and Co., c2010
576.8 ZIM

Wagiman plants and animals : Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the mid Daly River area, northern Australia
Lenny Gappuya Liddy …[et al.]
Darwin : Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts ; Katherine, N.T. : Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation, 2006 (Northern Territory botanical bulletin no. 30)
578.630994295 WAG

Mr Roscoe's garden
Jyll Bradley
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008
An artist’s exploration of the Liverpool Botanical Collection. The book acts as a virtual visit to the gardens revealed through Bradley’s texts and images..
580.7342753 BRA

An illustrated guide to common weeds of New Zealand, 3 rd edn,
Ian Popay, Paul Champion, Trevor James
Christchurch, N.Z. : New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 2010
581.6520993 POP

Flowers of south-west Europe : a field guide
Oleg Polunin, BE Smythies
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988
582.130946 POL

Native trees of the NSW South Coast : Berry, Kangaroo Valley, Nowra, Ulladulla, Batemans Bay
Kevin Mills ; Jacqueline Jakeman
Canterbury, N.S.W. : Envirobook, 2010
582.16099447 MIL

Mangroves of the Northern Territory, Australia : identification and traditional use
Glenn Wightman ; principal illustrator Milton Andrews
Darwin, N.T. : Dept. of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment, 2006 (Northern Territory botanical bulletin no. 31)
583.763099429 WIG

An illustrated guide to New Zealand hebes
M.J. Bayly and A.V. Kellow ; with introductory chapters by Peter J. de Lange [et al.] ; photography by W. M. Malcolm
Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press, 2006

The genus Paphiopedilum in China
Liu Zhongjian ... [et al.]
Beijing : Science Press, 2009
584.40951 LIU

The butterflies of Australia
Albert Orr and Roger Kitching; illustrated by Albert Orr
Crows Nest, N.S.W.; Jacana Books, 2010
595.7890994 ORR

The head gardeners : forgotten heroes of horticulture
Toby Musgrave
London : Aurum, 2009, c2007
635.092241 MUS

The native plants of Adelaide: returning the vanishing natural heritage of the Adelaide plains to your garden, 2 nd edn,
Phil Bagust & Lynda Tout-Smith
Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2010
635.95194231 BAG

Alpines : from mountain to garden
Richard Wilford
Richmond: Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2010 (A Botanical Magazine monograph)
Includes images of 31 paintings reproduced from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Growing alpines -- Ch. 3. Europe - Ch. 4. North America - Ch. 5. South America - Ch. 6 Australia and New Zealand -- Ch. 7. Japan -- Ch. 8. China and the Himalaya -- Ch. 9. Western and Central Asia -- Ch. 10. Africa.

635.9528 WIL

Landscape gardening, 10 th edn, rev. by Frank A. Waugh, and including many chapters from Downing's "Rural essays"
Andrew Jackson Downing
New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1921
712 DOW

The art of botanical illustration from Gwangneung Forest
Pocheon : Kimyongsa, 2005
Text in Korean with scientific plant names and some English text
758.5 ART

SERIES

Allertonia vol. 10, 2010
Checklist of the vascular plants of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia with local names and uses / Katherine Herrera … [ et al.]

Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement no. 73, 2007
Marine biodiversity of the Dampier Archipelago Western Australia 1998-2002
/ edited by Diana S. Jones.

Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement no. 74, 2008
Catalogue of type specimens of fishes in the Western Australian Museum, 2 nd edn / GI Moore … [et al.].

Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement no. 75, 2008
A biological survey of Faure Island, Shark Bay World Heritage property, Western Australia / edited by JD Richards and Barry Wilson.

Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement no. 76, 2009
A guide to ants of south-western Australia / Brian E. Heterick.

Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement no. 77, 2009
Marine biodiversity survey of Mermaid Reef (Rowley Shoals), Scott and Seringapatam Reef, Western Australia 2006 / edited by Clay Bryce.

RARE BOOKS & ART WORKS

The cytology and taxonomy of the family Aneuraceae in Australia and New Guinea
Helen J. Hewson
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Sydney, 1968
Rare Thesis HEWSON

Botanical art of Korean rare plants 2011 calendar
Pocheon : Korea National Arboretum, 2010.
Art 50

MAPS

New Zealand touring atlas, 3 rd edn,
Auckland , N.Z. : Hema Maps, 2010
Ref 912.93 NEW

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Establishing IUCN Red List criteria for threatened ecosystems
Jon Paul Rodriguez et al.
Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 1, 2011, pp. 21-29.

Using citizen science programs to identify host resistance in pest-invaded forests
LI Ingwell & EL Preisser
Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 1, 2011, pp. 182-188.

Report of the Special Committee on Electronic Publication
Arthur D Chapman, Nicholas J Turland & Mark F Watson
Taxon, vol. 59, no. 6, 2010, pp. 1853-1862

Myrtle rust, Uredo rangelii brochures, etc.
Look out for Myrtle rust
Preventing spread of Myrtle Rust in bushland
Uredo rangelii, pathogen of the month

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Lepschi, BJ 2010, ‘A new subspecies in Choretrum spicatum F.Muell. (Santalaceae) from South Australia’, Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 24, pp. 53-56.

Potvin, DA. Parris, KM & Mulder, RA 2011, ‘Geographically pervasive effects of urban noise on frequency and syllable rate of songs and calls in silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 2011, 7 p. [Published online 5 January 2011. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2296]
Study sites included Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Growing Friends Record of meeting 8 th Jan 2011

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

2011 ABRS Churchill Fellowships
A call to apply.
For the study of overseas taxonomic research on Australian flora or fauna
Applications close 28 February 2011
http://www.churchilltrust.com.au

# Arboriculture Australia Seminar and Workshops 2011
Innovation in Urban Ecological Management Conference
Tree Pathology and Biology Workshops
Dynamic Wind Loading to Identify Root Plate Stability Workshop
28 Feb – 4 March 2011
Brisbane
http://arboriculture.org.au/

13 th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS)
27-30 April 2011
Perth Cultural Centre, WA
http://wa-oigc.curtin.edu.au/conference.cfm

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

23 rd Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society Conference
25-30 September 2011
The Sebel, Cairns, FNQ
Call for papers
http://www.apwss.com/

# National Conference on Volunteering 2011
9-11 November 2011
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/conference

# 7 th International Association for Lichenology Symposium
9-13 January 2012
Bangkok, Thailand
http://ww.ru.ac.th/lichen/IAL7

 

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