ASBS Newsletter

Number 113, December 2002

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
The ballot on changes to the Society’s rules...................................1
Membership Fees 2003 ...................................1
ASBS President’s Report ...................................1
Minutes of the 2002 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. .................3
ASBS Newsletter Report (2002) ...................................3
ASBS Web-site Report (2002) ...................................4
Treasurer’s Report ...................................5

News
More changes in Adel ...................................13
Kew Library Catalogue goes on-line...................................13

Editorial ...................................13

Articles
Banksia alpina Wilhelmi – a nomen nudum, a nomen subnudum, or a valid name? .......................14
The discovery of Stockwellia (Myrtaceae) ...................................17
More memories of Alice Springs...................................18

Eichler Research Fund Report
Systematics of Euchiton (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae) with a focus on Australia and New Zealand ................19

Obituary
Carrie Michell...................................20

Retirement
Rod Henderson of the Queensland Herbarium...................................22

CHAH Report ...................................26

ABLO Report...................................29

Book review
Everlasting Daisies of Australia: identification, propagation, cultivation ...................................30

ABRS Report...................................31

Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Celebrations in Far North Queensland ...................................32
Coming celebrations in Darwin ...................................35

Conference Report
Evolution of the Australian Biota ...................................36

New Book
Vegetation of New Zealand by Peter Wardle returns to print...................................36

Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS) ...................................37

Test your identification skills
Sandbox tree in the Northern Territory ...................................39

History of Officers of ASBS Inc.
Incorporation and the Public Officer: additional notes ...................................40

ASBS Publications ...................................41

ASBS Chapter Conveners...................................42

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ...................................42

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