ASBS Newsletter

Number 89, December 1996

Contents

President's Report .................... 1

Annual General Meeting
Minutes - Chris Puttock .................... 3
Treasurer's Report - Peter Wilson .................... 5
Auditor's Report .................... 7

Letters to the Editor
Towards a unified systematics society - Christopher Quinn .................... 11

Articles
Port Essington and the plant collections of John W. Armstrong - Tony Bean .................... 13
A little more about C.A. Gardner - George Chippendale .................... 15
Are plants intelligent? - George Chippendale .................... 16
The end of botany? - Peter Crane .................... 17
A tercentenary - Alex George .................... 20
Notes on Australian specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN: Herb. McNab) relating to the second edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewensis - E. Charles Nelson .................... 21

Thesis Abstracts
Systematic studies in Homopholis (Poaceae: Panicoidae: Paniceae) - Karen Elizabeth Wills .................... 25
Taxonomy and reproductive biology in Hibbertia Andr. subsection Subsessiles Benth. - Catherine Nano .................... 26

Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 27

Australian Botanical Liaison Officer .................... 31

News from FASTS .................... 36

Field Trips
Gregory National Park: the 1996 Mueller Commemorative Expedition - Neville Walsh .................... 40

Book Reviews
Wildflowers of southern Western Australia .................... 42