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June-July 2014

last issue: April-May 2014

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

Curious minds: the discoveries of Australia naturalists
Peter Macinnis
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2012
ANBG copy donated by Maureen and John Connolly, March 2014.
508.94 MAC

Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from Judbarra / Gregory National Park, Nitjpurru, Kalkarindji and Daguragu, north Australia
Ivy Kulngari Hector ... [et al.]
Katherine, NT : Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corp. : Palmerston, NT : Dept. of Land Resource Management, 2012. (Northern Territory botanical bulletin ; no. 40)
578.630994295 BIL

Dalabon plants and animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from southern Arnhem Land, north Australia
Daisy Bordulk ... [et al.]
Katherine, NT : Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corp. / Mimi Aboriginal Art & Craft : Palmerston, NT : Dept. of Land Resource Management, 2012. (Northern Territory botanical bulletin ; no. 41)
578.630994295 DAL

Ngan’gi plants and animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from the Moyle River area, north Australia
Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart ... [et al.]
Daly River, NT : Merrepen Arts, Culture and Language Aboriginal Corporation : Palmerston, NT : Dept. of Land Resource Management, 2014. (Northern Territory botanical bulletin ; no. 43)
578.630994295 MCT

A field guide to Tasmanian fungi
Genevieve Gates, David Ratkowsky
Hobart : Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, 2014
579.509946 GAT

Ecological data in routine herbarium collecting
M.D. Crisp
1976.
Copy extracted from the 1978 Operations manual for the Herbarium of the Canberra Botanic Gardens compiled by A.B. Court.
P 580.74 CRI

Guidelines for the preparation of loans: prepared for Committee of Heads of Australian Herbaria
J.W. Parham
Hobart : Tasmanian Herbarium, 1976
Copy extracted from the 1978 Operations manual for the Herbarium of the Canberra Botanic Gardens compiled by A.B. Court.
P 580.740994 PAR

Seedtime : on the history, husbandry, politics, and promise of seeds
Scott Chaskey
New York : Rodale, 2014
ANBG copy donated by Murray Fagg, June 2014.
581.467 CHA

Field guide to the pitcher plants of Australia and New Guinea / Stewart McPherson & Alistair Robinson
Field guide to the pitcher plants of Borneo / Stewart McPherson & Alistair Robinson
Field guide to the pitcher plants of Peninsular Malaysia and Indochina / Stewart McPherson & Alistair Robinson
Field guide to the pitcher plants of the Philippines / Stewart McPherson & Victor B. Amoroso
Field guide to the pitcher plants of Sulawesi / Stewart McPherson & Alistair Robinson
Field guide to the pitcher plants of Sumatra and Java / Stewart McPherson & Alistair Robinson
Field guide to the pitcher plants of the United States and Canada / Stewart McPherson & Donald Schnell
Poole, England : Redfern Natural History Productions, 2011-2012
ANBG copies donated by the Botanical Bookshop, May 2014.
583.75... MCP

Field guide to the carnivorous plants of the United States and Canada / Stewart McPherson & Donald Schnell
Poole, England : Redfern Natural History Productions, 2012
ANBG copies donated by the Botanical Bookshop, May 2014.
583.750973 MCP

Eucalypt flowers
John Wrigley
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
583.766 WRI

An illustrated catalogue of Tasmanian mosses. Part 1
Rod Seppelt et al.
Hobart : Tasmanian Herbarium, 2013
Includes detailed line drawings of 37 mosses from Ambuchanania leucobryoides to Trachyloma planifolium.
588.209946 SEP

Where song began: Australia’s birds and how they changed the world
Tim Low
Melbourne : Penguin, 2014
ANBG copy donated by Peter Wellman, July 2014
598.0994 LOW

Birds of prey: eagles, falcons, kites, hawks, owls and frogmouths [folded poster]
Illustrated by Neville W Cayley
Sydney : Australian Geographic, 2014
P 598.90994 BIR

Hybrid: the history and science of plant breeding
Noel Kingsbury
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
631.52 KIN

Gardening women : their stories from 1600 to the present
Catherine Horwood
London : Virago Press, 2010
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
635.0922 HOR

Australian native plants: the Kings Park experience
Editor Mark Webb
Collingwood, Vic : CSIRO Publishing, 2013
635.9519411 AUS

Australian pigface and pigweed: tasty native food plants – a long tradition
Attila Kapitany
Boronia, Vic. : Attila Kapitany, c2013
635.93353 KAP

Australian weird and wonderful wattles
Attila Kapitany
Boronia, Vic. : Attila Kapitany, c2012
635.933748 KAP

The art of botanical drawing: an introductory guide
Agathe Ravet-Haevermans
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2009
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
743.7 RAV

The temple of flora
Robert John Thornton ; essays and descriptions of plates by Werner Dressendorfer
Cologne : Taschen, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
F 769.434 THO

Photography of natural things: a nature & environment workshop for film and digital photography, 4th edn
Freeman Patterson
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
778.93 PAT

Departmental writing and editing style guide
Canberra : Dept of the Environment, 2014
Also available  to DOE staff at: http://intranet.environment.gov.au/business/communication/writing-editing-style/Documents/Departmental%20writing%20and%20editing%20style%20guide.pdf
Ref 808.027 AUS

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Friends talks
1/5/2014  Why should we care about bees ? / Saul Cunningham
5/6/2014  Linking landscapes: Kosciuszko to Coast partners working for connectivity / Rainer Rehwinkel
12/6/2014  Bushfire: to burn or not to burn ? / Phil Cheney
3/7/2014 Changing landscape since ancient times / Karen Williams

Staff publications
Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition
Carlos E. Gonzalez-Orozco ... [et al.]
PLOS One, vol. 9, issue 3, March 2014
Available at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092558

A taxonomic revision of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)
Lachlan M. Copeland, Lyn A. Craven & Jeremy J. Bruhl
Australian Systematic Botany, vol. 24, 2014, pp. 351-374
Available to subscribers at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SB11015.htm

A phylogenetic solution to the Acacia problem
Joseph T. Miller, David Seigler & Brent D. Mishler
Taxon, vol. 63, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 653-658
Available to subscribers at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2014/00000063/00000003/art00015

New combinations and names in Melaleuca (Myrtaceae)
Lyn A. Craven, Robert D. Edwards & Kirsten J. Cowley
Taxon, vol. 63, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 663-670
Available to subscribers at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2014/00000063/00000003/art00017

Patterns of predation and antipredator behaviour in the Australian water dragon, Physignathus lesueurii
J. Sean Doody, Peter Harlow, Donna Douglass ... [et al.]
Herpetological Conservation and Biology, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014, pp. 48-56

Dale’s visit to Canberra
Toby Golson
The Graptophyllum, July/August 2014, p. 10


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