ASBS Newsletter

Number 99, June 1999

Contents

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

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

ASBS Inc Business
Hansjorg Eichler Research Fund Applications .................... 2

ABRS Report .................... 2

ABLO Report .................... 4

Articles
Notes on generic concepts in Rhodomyrtus, Archirhodomyrtus, Decaspermum and Pilidiostigma (Myrtaceae) .................... 5
CHAH Technicians Workshop .................... 8
George Bentham finally decides to become a botanist .................... 9

Reviews
Walker in the Wilderness .................... 9
Regardfully Yours: Life and Letters of Ferdinand von Mueller Vol 1 .................... 10
Flora of Australia Vol 48 .................... 11
Do not yield to despair .................... 13
Brilliant Careers .................... 13
Malesian Seed Plants Vol 2: Portraits of tree families .................... 13

Forthcoming Meetings
Dampier 300 .................... 15
III Southern Connection Congress .................... 16

Fellowships
Postdoctoral and short-term fellowships to Japan .................... 18
Scientific exchanges to Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan .................... 19
Scientific visits to Europe .................... 20
Scientific visits to the United States of America, Canada and Mexico .................... 21
Year 2000 French Government Scientific Fellowships .................... 22

News from FASTS
FASTS circular for March .................... 23
FASTS welcomes chief scientist .................... 25
Scientists behaving commercially .................... 25
Science awareness: Why is it so? .................... 25