ASBS Newsletter
Number 110, March 2002
Contents
ASBS Inc. Business
Council elections........................ 1
A September Annual General Meeting..............................................
1
Proposed changes to the Society’s Rules........................................
1
2002 Membership fees............... 1
Hansjörg Eichler Awards for 2002......................................................
1
Editorial
Welcome response from members......................................................
1
Erratum: Issue 109, p. 23............ 1
Corrections in electronic and hardcopy publication of the Newsletter...................................................
1
Eichler Research Fund Report
The Australian Rhamnaceae a preliminary molecular analysis..... 2
News
Appointment at CANB.............. 4
AD news...................................... 4
Changes at UNSW..................... 4
NSW Biodiversity Research Network................................................
5
Miscellanea
The botany of vomit, or a dog’s dinner............................................
6
Asterolasia buxifolia (Rutaceae) rediscovered...............................
6
Latin texts on the Web.............. 7
Letters
On electronic delivery............... 7
And further words on updating electronic databases, especially of taxonomic
works........................ 7
Obituaries
Ted Henty: the quiet achiever of New Guinea botany....................
8
Retirements
Gwen Harden: the people’s botanist...............................................
10
Gwen Harden: a few thoughts on retirement .................................
10
Bernie Hyland retires............... 11
ABLO Report
Book reviews
Nature’s Investigator: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia,
1801–1805....................................... 14
Acacia in the Flora of Australia: volumes 11A and 11B.............
18
Wattle, the Acacias of Australia CD................................................
19
Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Events in Western Australia ............ 21
Events in South Australia: celebrating “The Encounter”............
21
The Botanical Legacy of 1802, an exhibition at the State Herbarium
of South Australia................ 24
Events in Tasmania................. 25
Coming meetings
Victoria's plants first revealed: Robert Brown in Port Phillip 1802
a symposium (18 April 2002) to celebrate Victoria's first botanist ......
25
Beyond Robert Brown: a one day conference for postgraduates in systematics
and ecology........ 25
Robert Brown 200 Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 8 – 10 May 2002..................................................
26
Evolution of the Australian biota: the Australian Institute of Biology
conference in Adelaide 23 – 25 September 2002: venue for ASBS Annual
General Meeting......................................... 26
Plant species-level systematics: Patterns, processes and new applications
13–15 November 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands ............ 27
New book
A wildflower book with a difference................................................
27
Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation..................................................
28
Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS).................................................
28
ASBS Publications.......................... 31
ASBS Chapter Conveners.............. 32
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions.........................................................
32
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