ASBS Awards

Nancy Burbidge Medal 2001 ..........1
Hansjörg Eichler Research Grants 2001 ..........1

Membership Fees 2002..........1

ASBS Inc. Business

Minutes of the 23rd Annual General Meeting
of theAustralian Systematic Botany Society Inc. ..........1
Minutes of the extraordinary General Meeting
of theAustralian Systematic Botany Society Inc. ..........6
Independent audit report to Members ..........11

Editorial

The Newsletter going electronic, publication dates,
emailing membership,and membership fees..........11
Call for members’ contributions..........12

Nancy Burbidge Medal 2001

The President’s announcement..........12

Letters

What are the roles of Floras in an electronic age? ..........14

Deaths

Heinar Streimann (1938 – 2001) ..........16

Retirements

Munir Ahmad Abid of the State Herbarium
of South Australiaon the occasion of his retirement ..........17

ABLO Report........20

ABRS Report

New Publications ..........22
Coming soon...........23
Flora of Australia on the WWW..........23
Species Plantarum – Flora of the world ..........24

Meeting Reports

Flora Malesiana ..........24
Deep Morphology towards a renaissance of morphology in plant systematics..........26
Investigator ..........228

Coming meetings

Victoria's plants first revealed: Robert Brown in Port Phillip 1802
a symposium (18 April 2002) to celebrate Victoria's first botanist .......30
LucID workshops ..........31

Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS) ...31

Funding sources

Eureka Prizes..........34
Ebbe Nielsen Prize ..........34

ASBS Annual General Meetings and Burbidge Lectures ..........35

ASBS Publications ..........37

ASBS Chapter Conveners..........38

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematic Institutions ........38