Bibliographic Checklist of Non-Marine Algae in Australia by S.A. Day, R.P. Wickham, T.J. Entwisle & P.A. Tyler
Flora of Australia Supplementary Series No. 4, Australian Biological Resources Study, A4, 276 pp., soft cover.
Cost: $35 each, plus postage ($8.50 surface within Australia; $15,00 surface overseas). To order, send check (made payable to 'Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service' in Australian dollars drawn on an Australian bank) to:
ABRS (Flora)
GPO Box 636
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
FAX: +61-6-250 9948
The Turf Algal Flora of the Great Barrier Reef, Part I, Rhodophyta
by Ian R. Price and Fiona J. Scott, 1992, , James Cook University, Townsville, xii + 266 pp (incl. 81 figs). Softcover.
This volume deals with the turf-forming species of red algae recorded from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of 75 species and subspecies are provided, with emphasis on vegetative characters. In addition, data on nomenclature, type material, voucher specimens, habitat, seasonality and geographical distribution are given. Genus descriptions, keys to genera and species, a glossary of terms and taxonomic index are also included. This is the first detailed taxonomic treatment of the turf algae that occur on coral reefs, where they are of major importance in trophodynamics. Although written for Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the work should prove useful throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific region.
Available from the Bookshop, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia [phone (077) 814 812, fax. (077) 251 209]. Price $Aus 61.95 (incl. packaging and postage in Australia or overseas). Checks should be made payable to "James Cook University Bookshop". For credit card payment please specify whether Bankcard, Visa or MasterCard, give card number, expiry date and name of card-holder, and include your signature.
Pictures Wanted!
The Membership Committee of PSA is developing a high quality four-page brochure for its Patron Membership Campaign and for other promotional aspects of the Society. Two pages will include good quality color pictures, and the Committee would like members to contribute their best algal photographs to illustrate the diversity and uses of algae. Please send, as soon as possible, your slides or negatives (plus one print for each to evaluate faster the quality of the document) to
Thierry Chopin,
Center for Coastal Studies,
Dept. of Biology, University of New Brunswick,
P.O. Box 5050,
Saint John, N.B.,
E2L 4L5,
Canada.
Those who attended the annual meeting of PSA in Breckenridge know we were blessed with great weather--warm sunny afternoons and crisp, cool evening. Quite dry for that time of year, except for one afternoon when we were assembled on the lawn of the Hilton, posing for the official group photograph. Suddenly, we heard a strangely familiar hissing of water as the sprinkler system kicked in. Keith M. Knutson, PSA's (only?) cowboy poet, was so inspired by the effective dispersal behavior of the assembled phycologists that he wrote the following verses and read them at the auction. Most attendees probably have only a blurred memory of the poem, which is here printed for posterity:
T'was picture takin'time for the gatherin'
according to Paul.
Camped on Village Trail, the Hilton Green
Phycologists were about to fall.
Photographer gent, in the trail, spouted
Move 'em in on the side.
Rest your bones you first rows there
The group shifted like the tide.
Wavin' horseless carriages by, up the ladder
The camera gent did go.
Okay! You folks, if you're not seein' me
You won't show.
Now, look at me, on three the picture
I will take.
One, two, three, click, good show
Hold it, another I will make.
Fountains of water, like geysers, shot out of the ground,
Phycologists jumped, scrambled and screamed.
Donning wet clothes, wet faces, stained glasses
And wide-eyed expressions that beamed.
From a roof on high across the trail
A booming voice could be heard.
"On the the next picture, say SPRINKLER,"
Echoed his last word.
The moral of the story of gatherin' phycologists
Is short and sweet.
To be a phycologist you must
Learn to live with a wet seat.
Keith, who teaches biology at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, firmly believes that Paul Kugrens set the group up for a big Colorado chuckle. Oliver Stone is investigating. Keith is an ardent practitioner of cowboy poetry, which he says is "like a skunk visitin' a chicken coup; an eye-bulging, jaw-dropping, surprising experience, and nobody gets hurt." Sounds like our experience the group photo shoot, too.
T-Shirt Designs Wanted
The Board of Trustees is seeking input for and designs for the 50th anniversary meeting T-shirt.. Please provide designs and suggestions for details including color to
Dorothy Chappell,
Academic Dean,
Gordon College,
255 Grapevine Road,
Wenham, MA 01984.
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Phycological Newsletter Vol. 31, No. 3 October 1995
