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ASBS Newsletter

Number 110, March 2002

Contents


ASBS Inc. Business
Council elections........................ 1
A September Annual General Meeting.............................................. 1
Proposed changes to the Society’s Rules........................................ 1
2002 Membership fees............... 1
Hansjörg Eichler Awards for 2002...................................................... 1

Editorial
Welcome response from members...................................................... 1
Erratum: Issue 109, p. 23............ 1
Corrections in electronic and hardcopy publication of the Newsletter................................................... 1
Eichler Research Fund Report The Australian Rhamnaceae  a preliminary molecular analysis..... 2

News
Appointment at CANB.............. 4
AD news...................................... 4
Changes at UNSW..................... 4
NSW Biodiversity Research Network................................................ 5

Miscellanea
The botany of vomit, or a dog’s dinner............................................ 6
Asterolasia buxifolia (Rutaceae) rediscovered............................... 6
Latin texts on the Web.............. 7

Letters
On electronic delivery............... 7
And further words on updating electronic databases, especially of taxonomic works........................ 7

Obituaries
Ted Henty: the quiet achiever of New Guinea botany.................... 8

Retirements
Gwen Harden: the people’s botanist............................................... 10
Gwen Harden: a few thoughts on retirement ................................. 10
Bernie Hyland retires............... 11 ABLO Report

Book reviews
Nature’s Investigator:  The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801–1805....................................... 14
Acacia
in the Flora of Australia: volumes 11A and 11B............. 18
Wattle
, the Acacias of Australia CD................................................ 19

Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Events in Western Australia ............ 21
Events in South Australia: celebrating “The Encounter”............ 21
The Botanical Legacy of 1802
,  an exhibition at the State Herbarium of South Australia................ 24
Events in Tasmania................. 25

Coming meetings
Victoria's plants first revealed: Robert Brown in Port Phillip 1802 a symposium (18 April 2002) to celebrate Victoria's first botanist ...... 25
Beyond Robert Brown: a one day conference for postgraduates in systematics and ecology........ 25
Robert Brown 200 Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 8 – 10 May 2002.................................................. 26
Evolution of the Australian biota: the Australian Institute of Biology conference in Adelaide 23 – 25 September 2002: venue for ASBS Annual General Meeting......................................... 26
Plant species-level systematics:  Patterns, processes and new applications 13–15 November 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands ............ 27

New book
A wildflower book with a difference................................................ 27
Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation.................................................. 28
Federation of Australian Scientific  & Technological Societies (FASTS)................................................. 28
ASBS Publications.......................... 31
ASBS Chapter Conveners.............. 32
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions......................................................... 32

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