ASBS Newsletter

Number 114, March 2003

Contents

From the President................. 1

ASBS Inc. Business
Annual General Meeting .................1
Council elections: nomination forms enclosed................. 1
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund awards for 2002................. 1
Hansjörg Eichler Scientific Research Fund Applications for 2003................. 2

Articles
Baking bread and drying plants ................. 2
Canberra’s Student Botanical Internship Programme ................. 5
Development of the Rules of the Australian Systematic Botany Society................. 6

Comment
On nomina subnuda: a comment on Philip Short’s article ................. 12
Australian Systematic Botany Student Prize 2003 (Advertisement) ................. 14
What happened to the cereals ? Note on the Flora of Australia Grasses volume introduction ....... 15

News
Temporary move by Judy West................. 15
Marco Duretto moves to Tasmania ................. 15
Celebration of the completion of Marine Benthic Algal Flora ................. 16
WA Herbarium’s on-line FloraBase receives recognition ................. 16
Canberra fires affect colleagues................. 16
Happy 250 th birthday Species Plantarum and binomial nomenclature ................. 17
How Sweden celebrates Linnaeus................. 17
Change of role for Adelaide’s National Wine Centre ................. 18

Reviews
The genus Nicotiana illustrated................. 18
Flora of Australia Volume 43, Poaceae 1: Introduction and Atlas................. 19
AusGrass: Grasses of Australia ................. 23

Report from CHAH
Consensus Census Workshop (Orchidaceae)................. 25

Obituaries
Botanist and conservationist, teacher and educator C.Keith Ingram OAM BA, BEc, J.P. 1912-2002....... 26
Death of Dr Gerhard Benl (1910 – 2001................. 28

Correction
A bibliographic correction for two Western Australian papers ................. 28

Reports
ABRS Report................. 28
ABLO Report ................. 29
ABLO requests by email................. 31

Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Lectures in Darwin ................. 31

Coming events
“150 National Herbarium of Victoria” Celebrating 150 years of plant research in Australia 29 th September – 3 rd October 2003..... 32
Species Plantarum 250 years: Uppsala 22 nd – 24 th August 2003................. 32
Third National Native Grasses Conference November 27 th & 28 th 2003................. 32
XVII International Botanical Congress Vienna, 1st Circular 18th – 23 rd July 2005; Nomenclature Section, 13th–16 th July 2005..... 33

ASBS Publications................ 35

ASBS Chapter Conveners ................. 36

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions................. 36

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