ASBS Newsletter

Number 92, September 1997

Contents

President's Report .................... 1

ASBS Inc. Business
Deadline for December Newsletter .................... 2
Newsletter and Subscriptions .................... 2
Adelaide Conference '97 Update .................... 2

Letters to the Editor.................... 4

Conferences Report
'Botanic Gardens, Horticulture & Education: Partnerships in the Digital Era' - Trevor Christensen & Barry J. Conn .................... 4

Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 10

ABLO Report .................... 13

News from FASTS .................... 15

Obituaries
Eric N.S. Jackson .................... 23
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson .................... 24

Miscellany
N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium .................... 26
Flora of the NT coastal floodplains .................... 27
Email for MEL staff .................... 28
Email and fax for AD .................... 28
An editorial comment - 3. Who needs what? .................... 28
Perceptions .................... 29

Book Reviews
"Malesian Seed Plants. Volume 1 - spot-characters. An aid for identification of families and genera" .................... 30
"Black nightshades: Solanum nigrum L. and related species" .................... 31
"Freshwater Algae in Australia. A guide to conspicuous genera" .................... 32
"The Tree of Liff" .................... 32
"Checklist of the Mosses of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand" .................... 32