Briggs, Barbara Gillian (1934 - )

Summary

Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific). She is a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, the Systematic Botany Society and the Ecological Society of Australia. Her special interests include plant evolution and southern hemisphere biogeography. She has published key papers on the phylogeny and classification of the flowering plant families Restionaceae, Proteaceae, Myrtaceae and Scrophulariaceae.

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Chronology

1956

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)) First Class, University of Sydney

1961

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney

1962 - 1963

Career event - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

1967

Career event - Botanist Grade III, National Herbarium of New South Wales

1969 - 1997

Career event - Research Scientist, National Herbarium of New South Wales

1972

Career event - Deputy Chief Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales

1973 - 2011

Career position - Member, Australian Systematic Botany Society

1976 - 1977

Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales

1980

Career event - Senior Assistant Director (Scientific), National Herbarium of New South Wales

1983 - 1986

Career position - Vice-President, Australian Systematic Botany Society

1986 - 1989

Career position - President, Australian Systematic Botany Society

1994

Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

1997

Career event - Honorary Research Associate, The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (and National Herbarium of New South Wales), Sydney

2002 -

Award - Life Member, Australasian Systematic Botany Society

2005

Award - Nancy T. Burbidge Medal, Australian Systematic Botany Society

2011 - 2022

Career position - Member, Australasian Systematic Botany Society

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Book Sections

• Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S., 'A guide to a new classification of Restionaceae and allied families.' in Australian Rushes: Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and allied families, Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S, ed. (Nedlands, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), pp. 25-56. Details
• Johnson, L.A.S; Briggs, B.G., 'Three old southern families: Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Restionaceae' in Ecological biogeography on Australia, vol. 1, Keast, Allen, ed., vol. 1 (The Hague: W. Junk, 1981), pp. 427-469. Details
• Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Anarthriaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 19-21. Details
• Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Ecdeiocoleaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 195-197. Details
• Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Restionaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 425-445. Details

Conference Papers

• Briggs, B.G.; Marchant, A.D.; Gilmore, S.; and Porter, C.L, 'A molecular phylogeny of Restionaceae and allies.', in Monocots: Systematics and Evolution. [Proceedings of papers presented at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, Monocots II, 1998] (Melbourne: CSIRO, 2000).. Details

Journal Articles

• Bayly, Michael, 'New Life Member of ASBS: Barbara Briggs', Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 192 (2022), 3. Details
• Briggs, B.G., 'One hundred years of plant taxonomy, 1889-1989.', Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 78 (1991), 19-32. Details
• Briggs, Barbara, 'Alma Theodora Lee (1912-1990)', Telopea, 4 (2) (1991), 141-3. Details
• Briggs, Barbara, 'The National Herbarium of New South Wales: One Hundred Years', Telopea, 9 (2) (2001), 223-226. Details
• Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 2 December 1924 - 28 January 2015', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 161 (2015), 51-2. Details
• Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Alison McCusker OAM 13 September 1933 - 18 December 2015', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 165 (2015), 60-2. Details
• Briggs, Barbara G., 'L. A. S. Johnson - a botanical career', Telopea, 6 (4) (1996), 511-20. Details
• Briggs, Barbara G., 'Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson 26 June 1925 - 1 August 1997', Telopea, 7 (3) (1997), 177-180. Details
• Briggs, Barbara G., 'Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson 1926-1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (4) (2001), 475-494. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0011340475. Details
• Briggs, Barbara Gillian; Johnson, Lawrie Alexander Sidney, 'Evolution in the Myrtaceae - evidence from inflorescence structure', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 102 (4) (1979), 157-256. Details
• Johnson, L.A.S.; and Briggs, B.G., 'Myrtales and Myrtaceae - a phylogenetic analysis.', Annal of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 71 (1984), 700-756. Details
• King, Robert J.; and Briggs, Barbara G., 'Valerie May - fifty years of phycology', Telopea, 3 (2) (1988), 273-9. Details
• Wilson, Karen; and Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 - 15 August 2018', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 176 (2018), 23-8. http://www.asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/18-sep-176.pdf. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Briggs, Barbara, 'Botanist Alison McCusker's Flora of Australia remains a formidable legacy', Sydney Morning Herald (2015). Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/312946682. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2356897. Details
• 'Briggs, Barbara Gillian (19341122-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514330. Details