ASBS Newsletter

Number 122, March 2005

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
Proposed changes to the ASBS financial year ............ 1
Australian Systematic Botany Society Annual General Meeting Tuesday, 24 th May 2005 ........... 1
Minutes of Special General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc........... 1
Queensland Herbarium 150 th Anniversary celebrations
- ASBS Conference Plant Systematics in Australia - Where is it Going?.......... 2
The level of funding for the Australian Biological Resources Study
- a letter of concern from systematics societies and organisations ................ 3

Nancy Burbidge Medallists 2004 & 2005
Alexander Segger George: 2004 Burbidge Medalist ............ 4
Dr Barbara Gillian Briggs: 2005 Burbidge Medallist .............. 5

Articles
The taxonomic status of Dimocarpus leichhardtii (Benth.) S.T.Reyn. (Sapindaceae) ........... 7
The deletion of Sterculia foetida L. from the Australian flora .............. 8

Announcement
The Queensland Herbarium celebrating 150 years ............... 9

CHAH business
The Consensus Census: The List of Agreed Australian Vascular Plant Names ............. 10
Standardising informal names in Australian publications .............. 11

News
Professor Bryan Womersley wins SA Great Award ............. 12
A new research publication - Kanunnah , The Research Journal of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery .............. 12
Meetings of the Tasmanian Chapter of Australian Systematic Botany Society ................. 12
Forgotten Flora poster launch .............. 13

ABRS report ................ 14

ABLO report ................ 15
Timing visits to Kew at IBC time .............. 16

Book reviews and announcements
A new illustrated account of Australian orchids................ 17
A global view of fossil plants .............. 18
Images from Australian gardening history celebrated............... 19
Earth Alive! - Mary White's view of the biosphere............... 20
The botanical contribution of the Forsters revisited............. 22
Two publications on early French botany ............... 23
Encyclopaedia of past and current plant use in Europe .............. 24

Miscellaneous publications
The herbarium of William McNab in Glasnevin .............. 25
Important weed documents available on the Web................ 26
A new Lucid key to noxious weed disseminules of the USA ................ 26

Web sites of interest
Herbarium specimens of Japanese plants................. 27
Images of South African plants.................. 27
Explorers' journals on line ............... 27
Discussion paper on Rec. 60C.2 of the Code ............... 28
A new phylogenetic site............... 28
Plant explorers site ................ 28
Paul Foelsche - photographer and naturalist ............... 28
Australian Systematic Botany volumes now all on line................ 28
Internet course on Linnaeus's life and sciences .................. 29
Names politically incorrect, embarrassing, conserved or rejected .............. 29

Conferences and workshops
Conferences in Perth in 2005.............. 29
International Botanical Congress 2005.............. 29
Invertebrate Diversity in Landscape Management .............. 29
TDWG 2005 - St. Petersburg, Russia, 11-18 September 2005 ............. 30

Correspondence
Short term curatorial and research position in Fiji ............... 30
Request for back volumes of Australian Systematic Botany ................. 30

ASBS Publications ................. 31

ASBS Chapter Conveners ................. 32

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ........... 32

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