‘Fungi-gals’ Sapphire Mc Mullen and Roz Hart are arranging to print a special order of gorgeous mycologically-themed clothing in collaboration with a high quality supplier of batik. As those of you who purchased the fungi shirts initially conceived for the 2011 Fungimap conference are well aware, these cotton clothes are ...
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Book reviews and items of interest
John Cann & Ross Sadlier, CSIRO Publishing, 2017; RRP A$150 This is a large, handsome hardback book detailing this country’s freshwater turtles and also containing some information and photographs of New Guinea’s turtles. Each genus of turtle has its own section, with three or four pages of information on that ...
Read more →UWA Publishing. RRP $45 Authors: Jason C. Stevens, Deanna P. Rokich, Vernon J. Newton, Russell L. Barrett and Kingsley W. Dixon With Commonwealth Government proclaiming the Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain as a threatened ecological community, any study of this community is welcome. This book looks specifically at restoration ...
Read more →CSIRO Publishing. RRP $24.95 While probably aimed at teenage readers, Animal Eco-Warriors is enjoyable read for all ages. The book consists of thirteen fascinating chapters, each focussing on an example of how a particular species is used to assist scientists in investigating and mitigating environmental problems. Dogs feature in a ...
Read more →Anne Bellman is the recipient of the 2017 Western Australian Wildflower Society Award. This award is awarded to a person who has advanced the aims of the Society, promoting the value of our natural bushland. Anne has been a member of the WA Naturalist’s Club for 14 years at the ...
Read more →The recent Queens Birthday Honours list included two Club members: Penny Hussey and Kim Sarti. We offer them both our congratulations. Details as follows: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia Ms Bridgit Mary Hussey For significant service to conservation and land management practices in Western ...
Read more →GigaSaurier: die Riesen Argentiniens. Autoren, Oscar Alcober [and five others]; Übersetzung und Edition, Ilona Hauser, Bernd Herkner. Venedig [Italy]: Cubo Srl; Frankfurt am Main: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, [2010]. QE861.9.A7 G55 2010x This book was produced in 2010 by the Frankfurter Schenkenberg Nature Museum as part of an exhibition on ...
Read more →Remember the fungi grant that the club co-funded for three years, together with ABRS, for Dr Neale Bougher to work on the fungus family Inocybiaceae? At last, the book is finally going to be in print! After a lot of hiccups, lack of funding for ABRS and other associated ABRS ...
Read more →Paperback | May 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643097544 | 576 pages | 245 x 170 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour Paintings, Maps – See more at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6520/#details At 576 pages, this is a large, comprehensive review of Australia’s more than 900 bird species. It has many excellent features, the ...
Read more →Paperback | June 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643107076 | 464 pages | 215 x 148 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour photographs – See more at: https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6899/ With its clear, comprehensive, beautiful images and sensible layout, this is a great book for the amateur arachnophile. To begin with there is ...
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