as we all head into 2019 natural history activities. I’m attaching the Minutes GM2018 Anglesea held in Anglesea towards the end of ANN2018. ANN2018 was highly successful and greatly enjoyed by the 74 participants from all states and territories except for the Northern Territory. The Get-Together was hosted by Victoria ...
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Book reviews and items of interest
A botanical journey from Toodyay through New Norcia to Mt Lesueur Shire of Toodyay Curator Margie Eberle The exhibition follows the original tracks taken from Toodyay via New Norcia northwards to Mt Lesueur by James Drummond 1786-1863, Western Australia’s first government botanist, followed by Charles Gardner 1896-1970, many years later. ...
Read more →Australia’s Most Elusive BirdPenny Olsen Paperback | September 2018 | $ 49.99 ISBN: 9781486302987 | 368 pages | 245 x 170 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Illustrations, Photographs ePDF | September 2018 ISBN: 9781486302994 Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Available from eRetailers Penny Olsen’s new book tells a wholly human story of hopes kindled and dashed, tall stories told, of ...
Read more →Kings Park will again light up from 8 – 11 February, to tell the story of our unique biodiversity as part of Perth Festival. This year there is a new, on-ground component called Boodja Djena: Ground Beneath Our Feet, and you can be involved. Many Nats members are already doing ...
Read more →Slime Mould Aficionado and Club Member Margaret Brims became known to the Fungi Group of the club in 2004 when she provided much needed expertise on a group of organisms that we came across during our fungi forays. They weren’t exactly fungi, but while looking for new things we found ...
Read more →Our April speaker at the Main Club, filmmaker Leighton de Barros, has his new two-part series going to air as follows: Rottnest Island Kingdom of the Quokka – World Premiere on Nat Geo Wild, Sundays from December 16 at 23 at 8:30pm AEST – Foxtel, Fetch, Sky NZ & the ...
Read more →Congratulations to Kevn Griffiths and Lesley Brooker, who on Friday 9 November received awards for their extensive and invaluable service to natural history. Member for Kalamunda Matthew Hughes MLA and Kevn Griffiths. Photo: Rob Sandri Kevn Griffiths, co-founder of the Darling Range Branch (DRB Nats), is a fungus leader and ...
Read more →SECOND EDITION Paperback ¦ July 2018 ¦ RRP $39.99 ¦ 168 pages ¦CSIRO Publishing I found this book extremely interesting and easy to read. Gisela catches your attention immediately as she relates a story of three rescued Tawny Frogmouths at a veterinary clinic, sitting on a perch right next to ...
Read more →Kings Park fungi researcher Dr Matt Barrett has asked to be contacted if anyone in WA comes across any fresh Stonemaker fungi: Laccocephalum species. Stonemakers are the amazing ‘fire fungi’ that pop up from a sclerotium, a tuber-like hyphal mass sometimes incorporating soil particles, hence the common name ‘stonemaker’. They ...
Read more →Paperback | August 2018 | RRP $ 49.99 | CSIRO Publishing 280 pages | 215 x 148 mm | Colour photographs, illustrations After many years in the making, the long-awaited first definitive guide to Australia’s native bees is here, authored by one of the most erudite of Australia’s native bee ...
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