ASBS Newsletter

Number 78, March 1994

Contents

Twentieth Anniversary
On our 20th anniversary by M. Crisp .................... 1
ASBS - then and now by T. Whiffin .................... 3
Changes to the Newsletter by T. Clifford .................... 4
ASBS officers 1973-present .................... 5

Articles
The spelling of the generic name and an overlooked species of Siloxerus Labill. by P. Short .................... 6

Commentary
Unwritten minutes of the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria by G. Chippendale .................... 8
Single plant disjuncts by D. Symon .................... 8

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business
Sixteenth general meeting .................... 9
A.S.B.S. member profiles .................... 9
Origin and Evolution of the Flora of the Monsoon Tropics conference .................... 11

Reports
Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 12
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 13
Workshop on Taxonomic Descriptive Databases .................... 14
Queensland Herbarium .................... 16
New broom for FASTS .................... 16

Reviews
MacClade. Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution .................... 18
A Key to Australian Grasses .................... 22
A Bright and Savage Land .................... 24
Management of Endangered Plants .................... 25
Recent Publications .................... 26

Notices
Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Gopher server .................... 26
Humour in the biological sciences .................... 28

A.S.B.S. Publications .................... 30

A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners, and Herbaria Phone Numbers.................... 32