ASBS Newsletter
Number 120, September 2004
Contents
ASBS Inc. business
Proposed changes to the ASBS financial year ..........................1
Hansjörg Eichler Grants to be offered twice a year ..........................2
2004 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society,
Inc ..........................2
Attachment 1 Minutes of the 2003 Annual General Meeting
..........................3
Attachment 2 Presidents Report ..........................3
Attachment 3 Treasurers Report ..........................4
Attachment 4 Newsletter Report ..........................12
Attachment 5 Webpage Report ..........................12
Eichler Research Fund reports
Genetic variation and molecular phylogeny of an arid Acacia species
complex (Acacia victoriae of section Phyllodineae) .........13
Systematics of the endemic Chloantheae (Lamiaceae) based on chloroplast
ndhF, nuclear ITS and morphological data .........15
Point of view
Paraphyletic taxa should be accepted ..........................18
News
Staff changes at New South Wales National Herbarium ..........................19
David Mabberley moves on ..........................19
Obituaries
Sophie Duckers contribution to the history of botany ..........................20
The publications of Sophie C. Ducker ..........................22
Geoff Tracey ..........................26
Noel Lothian ..........................26
Miscellanea
Conservation Biology an emerging science ..........................26
Margaret Flockton Award for scientific botanical illustration ..........................27
Tallest peak on Mondrain Island named for Baudin ..........................28
New eco-tourism route for Western Australia ..........................29
TREENET facilitating street tree research and trials ..........................29
ABRS report ..........................30
ABLO report ..........................31
Conference report
James Drummonds influence on south-west Australian botany, conservation
and society ..........................32
Book reviews
Colonial Gardeners ..........................34
Tropical flowering plants ..........................36
The Botanical Endeavour: a response from the author to the review
in Austral.Syst.Bot.Soc.Nsltr no. 119 ..........................38
ASBS Publications ..........................39
ASBS Chapter Conveners ..........................40
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions
..........................40
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