ASBS Newsletter

Number 65, December, 1990

Contents

Nancy Burbidge Memorial Lecture, 1990
There is One Thing Greater than Armies: An Idea Whose Time has Come by Roger Carolin .................... 1

Articles and Commentary
Science, Systematics and Specimens by B.J. Conn and J.M. Powell .................... 7
Are Herbarium Specimens Useful in Non-Taxonomic Studies? An Examination of Allocasuarina littoralis and A. torulosa by Gabriel M. Crowley .................... 8
Poor Slides and Poor Speakers: Can Anything be Done? by D.E. Symon .................... 12
Library Collections by Helen Hewson .................... 12

ASBS Business
Minutes of the 13th General meeting .................... 13
Treasurer's Reports .................... 17
Student Prize .................... 19
ASBS Research Fund .................... 19
Future Meetings .................... 19

After Dinner Speech
Advice for the Over-Educated .................... 20

Personal News
Retirement of Bob Johnson by Bryan Simon .................... 25
Professor Eric Holttum (1895-1990) by William T. Stearn .................... 27

New Editors in 1991 .................... 27

Reports
18th Annual Meeting of Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria .................... 28
Australian Biological Resources Study Grants 1991 .................... 30
Australian Biologica1 Resources Study - Preferred Objectives for Grants in 1992 .................... 32
Australian Biological Resources Study - Flora of Australia .................... 32
Visit to Papua New Guinea .................... 33
Sydney Chapter .................... 33

Australian Botanical Liaison Officer .................... 34

Review .................... 36

Recent Publications .................... 37

Notices
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service - New Phone Numbers at Black Mountain, Canberra .................... 37
Women in Science in Australia .................... 37
1991 John Child Bryophyte Workshop .................... 38
Chromosome Number Reports .................... 38

Request .................... 38

Index to ABRS Newsletters Number 62-65, 1990 .................... 39

Australian Systematic Botany Society Publications & Orders .................... 42