Morepork Synopsis of Birds", but did not give it a binomial name. German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin described the morepork in 1788. "Morepork" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithological Committee. Both Gerlof Fokko Mees and Ernst Mayr regarded the taxonomy of the boobook owl as extremely challenging, the latter remarking in 1943 that it was "one of the most difficult problems I have ever encountered". In his 1968 book "Nightwatchmen of the Bush and Plain", Australian naturalist David Fleay observed that the boobooks from Tasmania more closely resembled those of New Zealand than those from mainland Australia,
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. The Society publishes an academic journal, the "Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics". Until 1996, when it was combined with the "Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics", the Journal was called the "Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics". Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society is an Australian professional association. It describes itself as "independent association of persons and organisations interested in agricultural, resource and environmental economics". The Society, then called the Australian Agricultural Economics Society was founded at a conference convened in Sydney in February 1957,