ASBS Newsletter
Number 116, September 2003
Contents
ASBS Inc. business
Preliminary news from the ASBS Annual General Meeting..........................1
Nancy T. Burbidge Medal
Two Burbidge Medals awarded by ASBS..........................1
The President's speech on David Mabberley's award..........................1
David Mabberley's acceptance speech..........................2
The Mabberley lecture.......................... 3
Articles
How Swedes celebrate Linné..........................4
In search of new species of Doryanthes..........................9
Some Muellerian artef10
News
Changes at the top in Sydney..........................12
ASBS member heads a new University super-school..........................12
Miscellanea
Last chance for proposing amendments to the Botanical
Code..........................12
New popular book on plant collectors..........................12
New email addresses for "@ea.gov.au" in Canberra
..........................12
Book reviews
Another diary from The Investigator..........................13
Wanggalili: Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma plants..........................13
Conference report
Celebrating 150 years for MEL and Australian plant research..........................14
Workshop reports
Latin course in Darwin..........................17
AVH Representatives Meeting 2003 in Sydney..........................18
ABRS Report..........................19
ABLO Report..........................20
Coming conferences
The Fourth Southern Connections conference in Cape Town 19-23 January
2004 ..........................23
First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting, Paris, July 6
to 9, 2004 ..........................23
XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna 2005 18 th - 23 rd July
(Nomenclature session 13 th - 16 th July..........................25
Interesting websites
Free-access web journal launched..........................25
Biodiversity hotspots..........................25
Plant Talk ..........................25
Paleobiology database..........................25
Genetic modification of crops ..........................25
World Atlas of Seagrass..........................26
Grants and other funding sources
Two Post-doctoral Fellowships at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand..........................26
Australian Biological Resources Study Call for Applications
for 2004/2005..........................26
ASBS Publications ..........................27
ASBS Chapter Conveners..........................28
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics
Institutions ..........................28
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