Bandicoots on the lawn 
A s members have been leaving Field Naturalists 
meetings recently, they have been delighted to 
see a Barred bandicoot (sometimes two) foraging 
around on the lawn which forms the roof of the 
Herbarium. The bandicoot has been unperturbed by 
the observers, and Mick Brown retrieved his camera 
from his car after one meeting and returned to the 
site in time to catch this fuzzy image in the low light. 
Barred Bandicoot 
Photo: Mick Brown 
Library Corner 
New to our website 
S ome of you may have noticed two new useful 
articles on our website. (Thanks go to Magali 
Wright NRM South, who provided information that 
formed the base of both these articles.) 
i. A member asked how they could extract from the 
Natural Values Atlas a species list for a specific area. 
A step by step guide can now be found at: 
http://tasfieldnats.org.au/data/documents/How-to- 
get-a-species-list-out-of-NVA.pdf 
2. Bush hygiene notes for bush walkers and field 
naturalists. This reinforces the talk by Magali Wright 
at our October meeting. 
http://tasfieldnats.org.au/data/documents/Bush- 
Hygiene.pdf 
Coming soon to the website! 
The project to get our historical hardcopy Bulletins/ 
Newsletters (1907-1999) on line is proceeding well. 
Thanks to Don Hird (and Simon Gove who facilitated 
it) all these Bulletins have now been scanned and I 
am collating them into order, checking for legibility 
and putting them into year batches. I am well over 
half way and we hope by the end of this year that we 
can have them up on our website. 
New to the library 
The TFNC Library book catalogue has been updated 
to include our recent acquisitions. It can be found on 
our website at http://www.tasfieldnats.org.au/library/ 
If you wish to borrow any of our books please email 
me on librarian@tasfieldnats.org.au or see me in 
the foyer prior to a monthly meeting to arrange 
collection. 
Book Accessions since June 2017 
We have been fortunate to have had a number of 
books donated to our library. Whilst some of these 
are now a few years old, they usefully fill some gaps 
of information in our library. 
Thanks to Genevieve Gates and David Ratkowsky 
our library acquired the following books from the 
downsize of the Forestry Tasmania library. 
Aspects of Tasmanian Botany: A tribute to Winifred 
Curtis by Banks, MR; Smith, SJ; Orchard, AE; Kantvilas, 
G. (Editors) (1991) 
botanical papers published as a tribute to 
Winifred Curtis. Chapters include: biography; early 
exploration; macrofossil evidence and diverse 
research papers (Hepaticae; Fungi; Mosses; 
Monocots and Dicots). 
Flora and Fauna of Alpine Australasia: Ages and Origins. 
Barlow, Bryan A. (Editor) (1986) 
Alpine environments of Australia, New Guinea 
and NZ differ from each other in terms of 
topography, genesis, climate & biota and 
contrast strongly with northern hemisphere 
alpine habitats. Paleoclimatology, paleobotany, 
biogeography, ecology and plant and animal 
systematics are used to discuss bio-historical 
relationships of these isolated islands of alpine 
terrain in the southern hemisphere. 
Insect Pests of Trees and Timber in Tasmania 
Elliott, HJ & de Little DW. (1983) 
information on the main insect pests of tree and 
timber in Tasmania, and details of the damage 
they cause and best means of control. Colour 
photographs enable easy ID of common pests. 
A Key and Field Guide to the Possums, Gliders and Koala 
Smith, Andrew & Winer, John (1997) 
Includes a species key, species descriptions and 
coloured pictures and distribution maps for the 
whole of Australia 
World Fire. The culture of fire on earth Pyne, Stephen, 
j-(1995) 
How fire and humans have co-evolved: the two 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 
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Quarterly Bulletin No. 368 
