ASBS Newsletter

Number 64, September, 1990

Contents

1990 Symposia
Hennig IX: Systematics and Biogeography of the Australian Biota .................... 1
ASBS Symposium - Indo-Pacific Biogeography. At the Crossroads - Abstracts .................... 2

Articles
Macquarie Island - A Report on a Short Visit by J.R. Croft & M.M. Richardson .................... 11
Ambiguous Gender in Latin Diagnoses by George A.M. Scott .................... 15
Crew Archives in the Queensland Herbarium: John Carne Bidwill (1815-1853) by R.J.F. Henderson .................... 16

ASBS Business
ASBS Research Fund .................... 17
Newsletter Editor(s) Needed .................... 18
1991 ASBS Subscriptions .................... 18

Personal News
Dr Mason Ellsworth Hale, Jr. (1928-1990) .................... 19

Reports
Flora of Australia .................... 19

Australian Botanical Liaison Officer .................... 20

Reviews .................... 22

Recent Publications .................... 28

Notices
Current State of Phylogenctic Gene Sequencing in Plants .................... 29
CSIRO Australian Journals of Scientific Research .................... 31
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences: Membership Application .................... 31
International Symposium on the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections .................... 32
Australian Science Archives Project: Annual Report .................... 32

Commentary
Systematics or Taxonomic Naming Service? .................... 33
Australian Systematic Botany Society Publications .................... 35