ASBS Newsletter

Number 129, December 2006

Contents

From the President . . . . . 1

ASBS Inc. business
Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund . . . . . 1
New members . . . . . 1

Article
Infra-specific variation in Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott (Araceae) . . . . . 2

Obituaries
Vale Jennifer Anne Chappill: July 26th 1959 – August 8th 2006 . . . . . 6
Neridah Clifton Ford (1926–2006) . . . . . 12

Personalia
Bob Harwood . . . . . 13

News
Teaching awards for systematics at University of New England . . . . . 14

CHAH Inc. business
Australian Plant Census . . . . . 15
Funding for an Atlas of Living Australia . . . . . 15
New Australia’s Virtual Herbarium data capture funds . . . . . 16
2007–08 ABLO appointed . . . . . 16

Miscellaneous
Thanks . . . . . 16
Request for Brassicaceae seed . . . . . 16

ABRS report . . . . . 17

ABLO report . . . . . 18

Notice: Membership fees now due . . . . . 19

Book reviews
A first volume on Australian fungal pathogens . . . . . 20
The first volume of Australia’s algal Flora . . . . . 21
An illustrated glossary of mosses . . . . . 23
A third edition of Australia’s Eucalyptus identification tool . . . . . 25
A fifth edition of the classic Forest Trees of Australia . . . . . 27
Matthew Flinders, his scientific gentlemen, and the 1801–05 Investigator expedition to Australia . . . . . 29
A biography of Peron . . . . 32
Editorial note: Two other recent botanical history works . . . . 34
Botanical Riches . . . . . 34

Meeting reports
I’ll be home on a Sunday sometime around three – ASBS 2006 Cairns Symposium Report . . . 37
ASBS Workshop: Molecular Tools in Plant Systematics, Cairns, November 2006 . . . . . 39
10th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, September 2006 . . . . . 40

Coming meetings
2007 . . . . . 41
Linnaean Tercentenary . . . . . 41
Plant Genome Horizons – Vistas and Visions . . . . . 41
5th World Conference of Science Journalists . . . . . 41
Fungimap IV . . . . . 41
21st New Zealand Fungal Foray . . . . . 42
Flora Malesiana VII, . . . . . 42
Evolution 2007 . . . . . 42
21st Pacific Science Congress: Diversity and Change:
Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Natural and Social Systems in Asia-Pacific . . . . . 42
Tercentenary of the Birth of Carl Linnaeus. A Festival of Systematics and History. . 42
21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology . . . . . 42
World Conference of Bryology 2007 . . . . . 42
Botany 2007 . . . . . 42
Systematics 2007: Sixth Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association . . . . . 42
Seed Ecology II . . . . . 42
9th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (EMAPi9). . 42
11th Evolutionary Biology Meeting . . . . . . 42
14th Biennial NSW Weeds Conference “Weeds, People and Partnerships” . . . . . 42
Australian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) . . . . . 42
The Third Biennial Victorian Weeds Conference . . . . . . 42
Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) . . . . . 42
2008 . . . . . 42
16th Australian Weeds Conference: Weed Management 2008: Hot Topics in the Tropics . . . 42
12th International Congress of Mycology . . . . . 42
5th International Weed Science Congress . . . . . 42
The 4th International Conference: The Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, and
The 5th International Symposium: Grass Systematics and Evolution . . . . . 42

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