ASBS Newsletter

Number 93, December 1997

Contents

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

ASBS Inc Business
1998 Subscriptions .................... 2
Hansjorg Eichler Reserch Fund, 1997 Awards .................... 3
Minutes of the 19th General Meeting .................... 4
Newsletter Report .................... 7
Society seeks Approved Research Institute Status ................. 8
Honorary Life Membership .................... 10
Treasurer's Report .................... 11
Financial Statement .................... 15

Conferences
Systematics. Advancing knowledge and conservation of Australia's biodiversity - Peter Linder .................... 19
Fourth International Legume Conference .................... 21

Articles
Alfred J. Ewart and "The Flora of the Northern Territory" - P.S. Short .................... 22
A method for wet preservation of plant specimens - J.R. Clarkson .................... 28

Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 30

International Association for Plant Taxonomy
Registration of Plant Names .................... 36

News from FASTS
September circular .................... 39
Media coverage for conferences - T. Gascgoine .................... 42

Obituary
Brian John Grieve .................... 44

Plant Notes
Russian type specimens of Kangaroo Apples (Solanum sect. Archaesolanum) - D. Symon .................... 47

Plant Quarantine
Movement of botanical specimens in North Queensland Quarantine areas - B. Cantrell .................... 48

Book Reviews
Pre-European Vegatation of Adelaide: A Survey from the Gawler River to Hallett Cove - M. Crisp .................... 50
Principals and Techniques of Contemporary Taxonomy - D. Morrison .................... 53

Stop Press .................... 58