ASBS Newsletter

Number 95, June 1998

Contents

Editorial .................... 1

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

ASBS Inc Business
Have you paid your 1998 subscription? .................... 3
Where does your newsletter go? .................... 3
Back issues of the newsletter .................... 3
Changes to the constitution .................... 3

Conferences/Workshops
ASBS 1999 conference .................... 4
NZBS botanical symposium .................... 5
A voyage to paradise .................... 5

ABRS Report .................... 7

ABLO Report .................... 8

Exchange Program .................... 9

Subscription to CSIRO Journals .................... 9

Obituary
A tribute to George Anderson McDonald Scott .................... 10

Articles
100 years ago: Botany in decay .................... 12
Problems with Apomicts .................... 12
Serendipity .................... 13

Herbarium News
Western Australian Herbarium Address List .................... 14
AD update ............... 14

Book Reviews
False Economy .................... 15
Worterbuch der Botanik .................... 16
George Bentham Autobiography 1800-1834 .................... 17
Biological Systematics. The State of the Art .................... 18

Know Your Botanical Institution
Darwin Botanic Gardens .................... 21

News from FASTS
FASTS release on the 1999 Budget .................... 22