ASBS Newsletter

Number 90, March 1997

Contents

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

ASBS Inc. Business
Annual General Meeting, Council Elections, Nomination form .................... 3

Letters to the Editor
On the distribution of ABRS grant funds to flora and fauna - Alex George .................... 5

Conferences
Adelaide Systematics Conference .................... 5

Articles
The identity of Eucalyptus salicifolia Cav. - A.R. Bean .................... 6
The Taxonomic Impediment and the Convention on Biodiversity - K. Elaine Hoagland .................... 9
Some notes concerning J.D. Batt (1843 - 1919) - P.S. Short .................... 16
Intelectual Property Rights in Databases - Karen Wilson ................ 20

Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria .................... 22

Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 23

ABLO Report .................... 25

News from FASTS .................... 27

Awards
CSIRO External Medal .................... 31
Prize for Celia Rosser .................... 32
Dr David Symon and the Australian Sysematic Botany Society .................... 32

Plant Notes
Aphanes pumila .................... 34
Millotia jacksonii .................... 35

Miscellany
Robert Brown's manuscript names .................... 35
New BRI email addresses .................... 36
Australian Air Express .................... 36
Draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy .................... 36
'I wish to thank' .................... 37
An editorial comment .................... 37
Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia .................... 37
Joseph Hooker and Araucaria cunninghamii seeds .................... 38

Book Reviews
"Evolution of Crop Plants; Flora of Victoria, Vol. 3." .................... 39