ASBS Newsletter

Number 71, June, 1992

Contents

Editorial.................... 1

Articles
A new method for increasing the robustness of cladistic analyses, by D. Morrison .................... 2
The correct author citations for Calotropis gigantea and C. procera (Aselepiadaccae), by P.l. Forster .................... 5
Guidelines for the preparation of requests to the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew, by G.P. Guymer .................... 6

Commentary
Systematic scientism, bv A. Hay .................... 7
Systematic science, by D. Morrison .................... 8

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business
Minutes of the Fourteenth General Meeting .................... 10
Treasurer's report .................... 12
Minutes of the Council meeting, March 1992 .................... 19
A.S.B.S. Constitution and the new A.C.T. Incorporation Act .................... 21
Symposium in far north Queensland .................... 22
A.S.B.S. member profiles .................... 22

Reports
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 26
Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 26
A.S.B.S, Melbourne chapter .................... 27
A.S.B.S. Adelaide chapter .................... 28
Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria, 19th annual meeting .................... 28
International Organization for Plant Information .................... 30

Personal News
Arthur Cronquist .................... 31

Reviews
Plant Systematics, Fundamentals of Plant Systematics .................... 32
Rainforest Fungi of Tasmania and South-east Australia .................... 36
Recent Publications .................... 38

Notices .................... 39

A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners, and Herbaria Phone Numbers .................... 40