ASBS Newsletter

Number 112, September 2002

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
Stop Press: Annual General Meeting .......... 1
Your new Council .......... 1
The finalised proposals for changes to the Rules of the Society .......... 1
Council's recommendation on the Rules changes .......... 1

Articles
A note on the authorship of Eucalyptus grandis .......... 2
John Richardson, an early collector from Melville Island, Northern Territory .......... 3

Editorial
Foregoing a hard copy Newsletter: your decision time approaches .......... 7
Changes to inserting advertisements in the Newsletter .......... 7

News
American Society of Plant Taxonomists award to Australian phycologist .......... 8
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research .......... 8

Global conservation initiative
Gondwana Alive .......... 9

Letters
Herbarium of the Northern Territory .......... 13

Obituary
David Whibley: 23rd June 1936 - 14th July 2002 .......... 14

Comment
A comment on A.A. Munir's revision of Australian Verbena (Verbenaceae). .......... 15
ABLO Report .......... 16

Book reviews
The Genus Clematis .......... 17
The Encounter, 1802: Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages .......... 18
ABRS Report .......... 19
ABRS Participatory Program .......... 20
Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary
Victoria's plants first revealed: Robert Brown in Port Phillip 1802 .......... 21
Robert Brown Symposium in Canberra .......... 21
Marking the bicentenary in South-east Queensland .......... 22
Mabberley lectures in North Queensland: final details .......... 22

New Books
Verticordia: The Turner of Hearts .......... 23
The book launch .......... 23
Under A Regent Moon .......... 25
The first of the ABRS grasses publications .......... 25

Special Offers
A special issue of Australian Systematic Botany
"Zieria (Rutaceae): a Systematic and Evolutionary Study" .......... 26
Special offers from UWA Press .......... 28

Coming meetings
MONOCOTS III .......... 28
4th Young Systematist's Forum .......... 28
Introgression from Genetically Modified Plants into wild relatives and its consequences .......... 29
Frontiers of Biogeography .......... 29
Fifth Australian Network for Plant Conservation National Conference .......... 29
Plant Systematics in Australia a conference celebrating the 150th anniversary
of the National Herbarium of Victoria .......... 30
INCITES .......... 30
Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS) .......... 31
Test your identification skills .......... 34
History of Officers of ASBS Inc. .......... 35
ASBS Publications .......... 36
ASBS Chapter Conveners .......... 37
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions .......... 37

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