ASBS Newsletter

Number 117, December 2003

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
2003 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. ............................1
Attachment 1: President’s report ............................2
Attachment 2: Treasurer’s Report ............................3
Attachment 3: Newsletter Report ............................11
Attachment 4: Webpage Report............................12
Science meets Parliament 2003............................12
New Service – Credit -card payment of Membership fees ............................12
Council survey on receipt of Newsletter in electronic form............................12

Articles
References to the Australian flora in the Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles Report............................13
The Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles ............................16
An alternative view to ICBN Proposal 1584 to conserve the name Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) with a conserved type............................17

News
Dennis Morris awarded an honorary Doctor of Science............................21
CANB head back at helm ............................22
Canberra’s plant biodiversity research alliance 10 years old ............................22
Justifying your Herbarium – lessons from America ............................23
Local and political opposition to Atherton Herbarium closure............................23
Celebrating the first mapping of Australia 400 years ago ............................23
GBIF visit to Australia ............................24

Obituaries
Vale Ted Moore ............................24
John Parham, 1929 –2002 ............................26

Book reviews
Still naming those flowers ............................27
Catalogue and Bibliography – Fungi of Australia, Volume 2B............................28
Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines............................29

ABRS Report............................32
ABLO Report............................33

FASTS
“Reckless squandering of talent” hurts knowledge economy ............................34
From the October FASTS Newsletter............................35
Cautious response to proposed ARC changes............................35

Miscellaneous
The Global Taxonomy Initiative ............................36
Intensive course in molecular systematics............................36
Reminder on monographic revision prize ............................36
Ebbie Nielsen Prize ............................36
Churchill Fellowships............................36
Australian Academy of Science International Scientific Collaborations program............................36
Another free biological on-line journal............................37

Coming meetings
Meetings in 2004............................37
Meetings in 2005............................38
Meetings in 2006............................38
Meetings in 2008............................38

ASBS Publications ............................39
ASBS Chapter Conveners............................40
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ............................40

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