Year

Location

Annual General Meeting Number

Title

Burbidge lecturer

Aug 1973

Perth

1

With ANZAAS

Jan 1975

Canberra

2

Modern methods in Plant Taxonomy (with ANZAAS)

May 1976

Hobart

3

Plant Biogeography (with ANZAAS)

Aug 1977

Melbourne

4

The cytogenetic stimulus to taxonomy (with ANZAAS)

Jan 1979

Sydney

5

With ANZAAS

S.L.Everist
(The Role of Herbaria in Australia today)

May 1980

Adelaide

6

Evolution of the flora and fauna of arid Australia (jointly with Ecological Society of Australia, Australian Entomological Society and Australian Society of Herpetologists.

H.T.Clifford
(Seedlings and the Australian flora)

Aug 1981

Sydney

7

With IBC

May 1983

Perth

8

Systematics & Biogeography of Myrtaceae (with ANZAAS)

B.J.Grieve
(History of key to Flora of temperate WA)

May 1984

Canberra

No associated AGM

Cladistics, Systematics and Phylogeny (with ANZAAS)

Feb 1985

Thredbo

9

Origin & evolution of Australasian Alpine Biota (with APES)

H.E.Connor
(The effect of Australian dicotyledons on the taxonomy of the Angiosperms.)

Feb 1986

Thredbo

No associated AGM

The systematic status of large flowering plant genera

Aug 1986

Brisbane

10

Evolution & systematics of Australian tropical flora (with Ecological Society)

D.E.Symon
(The diversity of Solanum fruits: a world survey.)

May 1988

Melbourne

11

Development of systematic botany in Australasia

J.H.Willis
(Melbourne: a focal point for early botanical activity.)

June 1989

Sydney

12

Plant systematics in the age of Molecular Biology

Aug 1990

Canberra

13

Indo Pacific Biogeography; at the crossroads (post Hennig conference)

R. Carolin
(There is one thing greater than armies: an idea whose time has come.)

Aug 1991

Hawaii

No associated AGM

Biogeography and Phylogenetics of Pacific Flora (with American Botanical Society)

Nov 1991

Auckland

No associated AGM

Systematic and Ecological relationships of South Pacific floras (with NZ Botanical Society)

March 1992

Sydney (not held with conference)

14

Jan 1993

Hobart

15

Southern Temperate ecosystems- origin and diversification (jointly with Southern Connections and Ecological Society of Australia)

E.Truswell
(Vegetation change in the Australian Tertiary in response to climatic and phytogeographic forcing factors.)

Oct 1993

Perth

No associated AGM

Systematics, Evolution and Conservation of the Western Australian Biota

July 1994

Kuranda

16

Origin and evolution of Flora of Monsoon Tropics

G.A.M. Scott
(Cryptogams: the better investment.)

Sept. 1995

Canberra

17

Workshop: Analysis of cladistic data: morphological and molecular.

Oct 1996

Melbourne

18

Beyond the Floras/ Proteaceae/Fungi

P.Y.Ladiges
(Biogeography after Burbidge)

Sept 1997

Adelaide

19

Systematics: advancing knowledge and conservation of Australia’s biodiversity (with SASB)

Sept 1998

Sydney

20

Monocots II (International meeting)

M. Bennett, Kew
(Genomic organization and systematics in the 21^st Century)

Dec. 1999

Perth

21

Dampier 300 (with SASB)

A.H. Burbidge:
(Conservation of the biota of the South-West Botanical Province of Western Australia)

June 2000

Sydney

22

Roderick Page workshop on Historical Associations

Sept. 2001

Sydney

23

In association with Flora Malesiana symposium

J.G. West:
(Future directions of systematics in Australia)

Sept. 2002

Adelaide

24

Held in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Biology conference "Evolution of the Australian Biota".

Sept-Oct 2003

Melbourne

25

150 Years of Systematic Botany in Australia

R.S. Hill - Fire, air, water and earth: elemental evolution of the Australian flora

2-4 Nov 2005

Brisbane

Plant Systematics in Australia - Where is it Going?