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ASBS Newsletter

Number 79, June 1994

Contents


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

Articles
The biodiversity crisis of the Pacific region by B. Conn .................... 2
Hooker and Presl by P.G. Wilson .................... 5

Commentary
Ferdinand von Mueller by S. Maroske .................... 6

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business
Subscriptions for 1994 ....................7
Origin and Evolution of the Flora of the Monsoon Tropics conference .................... 7
Workshop on Analysis of Cadistic Data: Morphological and Molecular .................... 8
Email addresses of members of the Australian Systematic Botany Society Inc. .................... 8

Reports
Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 11
A.S.B.S. Canberra Chapter .................... 12
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 13
Queensland Herbarium .................... 14
Botany Committee meetings of the Pacific Science Association .................... 14

Personal News
In memoriam: Benjamin C. Stone .................... 15
David G. Catcheside .................... 16

Reviews
Cladistics. A Practical Course in Systematics .................... 16
A Key to Australian Grasses .................... 19

Recent Publications .................... 19

Notices
Biology science olympiads .................... 20
XVIII Pacific Science Congress .................... 21

A.S.B.S. Publications .................... 22

A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners, and Herbaria Phone Numbers .................... 24