QUEEN VICTORIA MUsEUM AND ART GALLERY

Museum Publications
Museum Publications
Publication Highlights
• One of the most significant re-publishing projects of the
Museum was launched on 27 November. Initiated around 10
years ago by the Plomley Foundation, a new edition of NJB
Plomley’s Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers
of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834 was published.
The first edition was published in 1966 by the Tasmanian
Historical Research Association. In 1971 the Tasmanian
Historical Research Association published a supplement,
also edited by Plomley.
This new edition of Friendly Mission, co-published by the
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Quintus
Publishing, incorporates the corrections and additions that
appeared in the 1971 supplement, together with additional
corrections collated by Plomley over subsequent years.
Further, this edition includes Plomley’s revised version of
‘The Bruny Island mission, 1829’ which corrects previous
omissions and adds extra material such as the journal
of Robinson’s clerk, Charles Sterling. There is also a
comprehensive new index.
• A Collected View, a guide to the art collections of the QVMAG.
• QVMAG research reports will become progressively
available online through the QVMAG website. Scanning and
electronic conversion of these has been commenced.
Papers and Articles
Dean, JC, Forteath, GNR and Osborn, A.W (2008), ‘Marmenuera,
a new genus of leptophlebiid mayfly (Insecta: Ephemeroptera)
endemic to Tasmania’, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 43–50.
Gershwin, L and Zeidler, W (2008), ‘Cladonema timmsii, a new
species of hydromedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from a salt lake in
South Australia’, Zootaxa 1826, pp. 59–68.
Gershwin, L and Gibbons, MJ (2009), ‘Carybdea branchi, sp.
nov., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from South Africa’,
Zootaxa 2088, pp. 41–50.
Mesibov, R (2008) ‘On millipedes and sense of place’,
The Tasmanian Naturalist 130, pp. 2–9.
Mesibov, R (2008) ‘Redescription of Paurodesmus sjoestedti
(Verhoeff, 1924) comb. n. (Diplopoda: Polydesmida:
Dalodesmidae)’, Australian Entomologist 35(3), pp. 111–119.
Mesibov, R (2008) Millipede salvage in southwest Victoria.
Victorian Naturalist 125(4), pp. 96–103.
Mesibov, R (2009) ‘Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910
(Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae)’, ZooKeys 12, pp. 87–110.
Mesibov, R (2009) ‘A new millipede genus and a new species of
Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidea)
from southern Tasmania, Australia’, ZooKeys 7, pp. 55–74.
Osborn, AW, Forteath, GNR and Stanisic, J (2008) ‘A new
species of freshwater sponge (Porifera: Spongillidae) of the
genus Radiospongilla from Lake Pedder in Tasmania’, Papers and
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 142(2), pp. 39–44.
Smithers, CN, Forteath, GNR. and Osborn, AW (2008) ‘A new
species of Sisyra Burmeister (Insecta: Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from
Lake Pedder, Tasmania’, Australian Journal of Entomology 47, pp 77–79.
Tassell, CB (2008) ‘Upper Ordovician Gastropods from the
Gordon Group, Western Tasmania’, Records of the Queen Victoria
Museum, No. 114.
Turney, CSM, Flannery, TF, Reid, C, et al. (2008) ‘Late-surviving
megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement
in their extinction’, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 105(34), pp. 12150–12153.
Gershwin, L and Dawes, P (2008), ‘Preliminary observations on
the response of Chironex fleckeri (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida)
to different colors of light’, Biological Bulletin, 215, pp. 57–62.
Gershwin, L (2008), ‘Morbakka fenneri, a new genus and species
of Irukandji jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)’, Memoirs of the
Queensland Museum – Nature 54(1), pp. 23–33.
Gershwin, L and Dabinett, K (2009), ‘Comparison of eight types
of protective clothing against Irukandji jellyfish stings’, Journal of
Coastal Research 25(1), pp. 117–130.
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