ASBS Newsletter

Number 111, June 2002

Contents

Flyer insert - AIBiol Annual Conference, Evolution of the Australian Biota [PDF]

Report from CHAH
Responding to issues........... 1
Review of the ABLO .......... 1
Resources of Australian Herbaria ........... 2
Australia’s Virtual Herbarium ........... 2
Towards a Consensus Census ........... 2

ASBS Inc. Business
Council meeting........... 3
The September Annual General Meeting........... 3

Editorial
Bringing systematics issues to the membership........... 3

Issues
Establishing new national research priorities ........... 4

Eichler Research Fund Report
An investigation of Rhododendron lochiae F. Muell. its taxonomy, distribution and genetic variance ........... 5
Addendum to report on the preliminary molecular analysis of Australian Rhamnaceae ........... 5

Article
The identity of "Solanum adenophorum" in New South Wales and Victoria ........... 6

News
The official opening of the Northern Territory Herbarium ........... 6
The speech that wasn’t made ........... 7
South Australian Government Handbooks Committee winds up........... 9

Miscellanea
A dryland botanist meets the rainforest........... 9
Electronic access to old periodicals through JSTOR........... 10
A new family basal in the flowering plants........... 10
NY vascular plant types on-line ........... 11
Final report from Convention on Biological Diversity........... 11
Molecular work increases the value of herbarium specimens ........... 11

Obituaries
Alexander Clifford Beauglehole OAM 26 August 1920 – 19 January 2002........... 13
Stephen Jay Gould............ 13

ABRS Report
ABRS undergoing another restructure........... 13
New publications............... 14
Nature’s Investigator awa 16

ABLO Report ........... 16

Book reviews
Seeds of New Zealand: gymnosperms and dicotyledons ........... 17
Malesian Seed Plants. Vol. 3, Portraits of non-tree families. ........... 18

Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Botanical embarassment? ........... 20
Further events in Western Australia ........... 21
Beyond Robert Brown: a one day conference for postgraduates in systematics & ecology ........... 21
Robert Brown 200 Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 8 – 10 May 2002........... 22
Brown’s lasting influence on botanical systematics........... 22

Coming meetings
Flinders celebrations: it’s Queensland’s turn ........... 25
Plant Systematics in Australia: a conference celebrating the150 th anniversary of the National Herbarium of Victoria ........... 26
Fifth Australian Network for Plant Conservation national conference: preliminary announcement ........... 27
Evolution of the Australian Biota: the Australian Institute of Biology conference in Adelaide 23 – 25 September 2002........... 27

Funding sources
Visiting Research Fellowship of up to 3 months’ tenure at Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney ........... 27
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund awards for 2002 ........... 28

New books
Cycads of the World (2 nd edition........... 28
Everlasting Daisies of Australia ........... 28

Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation........... 29

Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS)............ 29

ASBS Publications.................... 31

ASBS Chapter Conveners ........... 32

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions........... 32

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