ASBS Newsletter

Number 72, September, 1992

Contents

Articles
An examination of Doinin's missing grass types, by B. Simon .................... 1
Memories of some collecting trips in central Australia, by G. Chippendale .................... 7
Senecio lautus sensu lato - an unresolved complex, by P.W. Michael .................... 10
Selected papers from the Database Developments and Data Sharing Workshop - Introduction, by B. Conn .................... 13
The need for an international interchange standard - how international is HISPID?, by B. Conn .................... 14
The Australian museum icthyology databases - a national perspective, by M. McGrouther .................... 16
Towards ecological databases for a conservation organization, by M. Ellis .................... 17

Commentary
Further applications of the data enrichment method, by P. Jobson .................... 18
Proposed revisions to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, by T.B. Widdowson and L.D. Druehl .................... 18

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business
Fifteenth General Meeting .................... 20
Council elections .................... 20
New public officer .................... 20
CSIRO scietitific journal subscriptions .................... 20
A.S.B.S. member profiles .................... 20
Southern temperate ecosystems conference .................... 21

Reports
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 22
Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 22
International Organizatiom for Plant Information .................... 22
International transfer format - an update .................... 23
A.S.B.S. participation in A.I.B.S. meetings in Hawaii .................... 23

Reviews
Introduction to the Principles of Plant Taxonomy .................... 24
Vegetation Description and Map, Ipswich South-eastern Queensland .................... 27
Pioneer Priest and Botanist; and Syms Covington of Pambula .................... 28

Notices .................... 28

Herbaria Phone Numbers .................... 32