ASBS Newsletter

Number 102, March 2000

Contents

ABRS Inc Business
Annual General Meeting .................... 1
Council elections .................... 1
ASBS workshop .................... 2

ABRS Report .................... 2

ABLO Report .................... 3

Articles
Eichler award recipient's report .................... 5
Sharing accession-based herbarium information .................... 7
Rediscovering Grevillea rosmarinifolia .................... 13
New staff and some new research directions at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne .................... 15
"Game over"?: Palaeopalynology in the new millenium .................... 17
Sequestration of the northern Australian flora during the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary .................... 20
Nancy Burbidge Memorial Lecture: Conservation of the biota of the Megadiverse South-west Botanical Province, Australia ............... 25

Reviews
Flora of Australia Volume 1: Introduction 2nd Edition .................... 33

Incites .................... 35

Conferences/Workshops
Jupiter Botanicus Down Under .................... 37
Workshops for scientists .................... 38

News from FASTS
Two steps in the right direction .................... 38
Australian investment in scientific instruments fails .................... 39
FASTS circular for January-February 2000 .................... 40
FASTS salutes Malcolm McIntosh .................... 42
"Top Ten Issues" for 2000 .................... 43