News

This month’s Library Connect has the usual listing of new books and links to a couple of recent articles on the biological control of weeds and indigenous-led restoration of degraded ecosystems.  The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30.  Alex can be contacted by email or phone (02 6250 9480) if you need assistance.  The “click and collect” boxes in the Visitor Centre are still available for returning items, and Alex is very happy to leave items there for collection if that’s easier than visiting the library.

Friends Council have recently resolved to establish the Don Beer Memorial Fund as part of our Public Fund. The Fund will finance a series of scholarships for the study of, and research into, Australian native plants. Administration of the fund will operate alongside the ANBG Scholarship Programme. The Memorial Fund has been made possible by an extremely generous commitment of $25,000 from Ella Beer. The Fund also welcomes donations from Friends members and the general public, all of which are tax deductible under the Friends Public Fund.

View the latest issue of e-ucalypt, the email newsletter of the Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens (AAFBG).

The Botanical Resource Centre (BRC), a former joint initiative of the Gardens, the Herbarium, and the Friends of the ANBG, has now closed. The Public Reference Herbarium specimens and the BRC's reference collection will be moved to the ANBG Library for storage. [Correction: an earlier draft stated that these materials would still be available to members of the Friends. This is not the case.]