PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA VOLUME 158

Contents

• Koolhof, ME — The place of art in soft diplomacy: the journey of a painting from the Royal Society of Tasmania Art Collection to the United States during World War II  1
• Kirkpatrick, JB — Predicting spatial variation in the upper limit of trees on the alpine mountains of Lutruwita/Tasmania  7
• Ratcliff, E — Botanical renderings: the unique representations of native plants in St John’s Church, Launceston  17
• Rowe, BA — A compendium of the effects of liming materials on crop, pasture and soil characteristics in Tasmania, Australia, from 1940 to 2020  25
• Koolhof, ME — Celebrating with the nation: artwork from the Royal Society of Tasmania tours the country to mark the Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee in 1951  39
• Corbett, KD & Corbett, E — Natural history of the Tyndall Range, western Tasmania – site of Tasmania’s next ‘Iconic Walk’  43
• Richardson, AMM — Engaeus excavator, a new species of freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from central northern Tasmania, with notes on its ecology, distribution and conservation 57
• Kantvilas, G & Elix, JA — Additions to the Tasmanian lichen flora from Athrotaxis cupressoides-dominated alpine vegetation  67
• McQuillan, PB, Schmidt, O, Byrne, CJ & Warren, M — Rediscovery and systematics of the rare brown-caped carpet moth Chrysolarentia excentrata (Guenée, 1857 [1858]) comb. nov. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) in Tasmania  79
• Sculthorpe, H — Fifty years of the Aboriginal movement in Lutruwita/Tasmania and some reflections on the next fifty years. Summary of a lecture presented to the Royal Society of Tasmania, 4 August 2024  87
• Davidson, JK — Historic documentation of continental drift  93