Meeting – Tuesday 12th May, 2020

This is a new foray site for the QMS. Situated on the north side of Brisbane, Murrumba Downs promises to be an interesting site with a variety of habitats, ranging from dry Eucalypt forest to pockets of rainforest and mangroves. For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

Gillian Brown, Collections Manager at the Queensland Herbarium (BRI) will be speaking about "Processes in Herbarium". Afterwards, Vanessa Ryan will give a short talk about her recent visits to the Kew Fungarium and Edinburgh Herbarium.

Fran Guard will report on the "Spore Prints and Pics" Workshop. Dave Wood will be speaking on "Fungal Genomics".

This will be an informal meeting where members are asked to bring something of interest, for example a book, or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or a favourite species, etc..

Various Speakers – A Year of Forays and Reports PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME 4.00-6.00pm FM Bailey room Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha.

Guest speaker Dr Rod Rogers BSc(Hons) PhD DSc – Lichens Rod Rogers taught and conducted research at the University of Queensland from 1971 to 2001.  He is the author of many research publications and two books on lichen systematics. Foray Report from Linday Garrett (held on 24th June) As always, members are also asked to…