ASBS Newsletter
Number 108, September 2001
Contents
ASBS Inc. Business
The Society and legal issues...........................................
1
ABRS Report
Launch of Acacia/Wattle .................................................
2
Twenty years of Flora of Australia ............................
3
Recent publication .............................................................
3
Coming soon.....................................................................
3
Book award.........................................................................
4
ABRS Research Grants 2002/03
New information on web ......................................................
4
Research priorities 2002/03 ................................................
4
ABLO Report......................................................................
5
Eichler Research Fund Report.............................................
6
Chloroplast DNA variation in Eucalyptus series Subulatae ...........
6
Articles
The Biological Detection of Jack-the-Ripper....................... 8
News
A Temporary Move for DNA Thousands lost as big stink shuts
firm............ 13
Changed visitor access to the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) ......
13
Australia's Virtual Herbarium: bringing a vision to reality ...........
14
Reviews
Another milestone in the advancing taxonomy of Grevillea Flora of Australia Vol. 17A: Proteaceae 2, Grevillea. ..................
15
Obituaries
Richard E. Schultes: authority on medicinal and hallucinogenic plants
of the Amazon.......... 17
Letters
Fanny de Moles Wild Flowers of South Australia........................
19
Volunteer work in Costa Rica....................................................
19
Requests
Rubus: a note for curators, mounters and volunteers ............................
20
Coming conferences
Flowers: Diversity, Development and Evolution.......................
21
Conference Reports
Fourth International Legume Conference ........................... 22
Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies
(FASTS)
ASBS at Science Meets Parliament 2001 .......................... 23
FASTS' media releases ................................... 24
Policies for the next election: forget tax science holds the future
.............. 24
Report on universities welcomed ...................... 25
Minchin vs. Evans: science policy debate is on.......................
25
INCITES
National industry strategy to exploit biodiversity ........................
26
Funding sources
University of Technology Sydney Science Postgraduate Research programs
(advertisement)...... 29
Call for proposals: National Science Week 2002 Project Grants ................
30
A.S.B.S. Publications.................................................
31
A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners..........................................................
32
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematic Institutions ..........
32
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