ASBS Inc. Business

Council elections........................ 1

A September Annual General Meeting.............................................. 1

Proposed changes to the Society’s Rules........................................ 1

2002 Membership fees............... 1

Hansjörg Eichler Awards for 2002...................................................... 1

Editorial

Welcome response from members...................................................... 1

Erratum: Issue 109, p. 23............ 1

Corrections in electronic and hardcopy publication of the Newsletter................................................... 1

Eichler Research Fund Report

The Australian Rhamnaceae  a preliminary molecular analysis..... 2

News

Appointment at CANB.............. 4

AD news...................................... 4

Changes at UNSW..................... 4

NSW Biodiversity Research Network................................................ 5

Miscellanea

The botany of vomit, or a dog’s dinner............................................ 6

Asterolasia buxifolia (Rutaceae) rediscovered............................... 6

Latin texts on the Web.............. 7

Letters

On electronic delivery............... 7

And further words on updating electronic databases, especially of taxonomic works........................ 7

Obituaries

Ted Henty: the quiet achiever of New Guinea botany.................... 8

Retirements

Gwen Harden: the people’s botanist............................................... 10

Gwen Harden: a few thoughts on retirement ................................. 10

Bernie Hyland retires............... 11

ABLO Report

Book reviews

Nature’s Investigator:  The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801–1805....................................... 14

Acacia in the Flora of Australia: volumes 11A and 11B............. 18

Wattle, the Acacias of Australia CD................................................ 19

Marking the Robert Brown bicentenary

Events in Western Australia.. 21

Events in South Australia: celebrating “The Encounter”............ 21

The Botanical Legacy of 1802,  an exhibition at the State Herbarium of South Australia................ 24

Events in Tasmania................. 25

Coming meetings

Victoria's plants first revealed: Robert Brown in Port Phillip 1802 a symposium (18 April 2002) to celebrate Victoria's first botanist............................................. 25

Beyond Robert Brown: a one day conference for postgraduates in systematics and ecology........ 25

Robert Brown 200 Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 8 – 10 May 2002.................................................. 26

Evolution of the Australian biota: the Australian Institute of Biology conference in Adelaide 23 – 25 September 2002: venue for ASBS Annual General Meeting......................................... 26

Plant species-level systematics:  Patterns, processes and new applications 13–15 November 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands.............. 27

New book

A wildflower book with a difference................................................ 27

Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation.................................................. 28

Federation of Australian Scientific  & Technological Societies (FASTS)................................................. 28

ASBS Publications.......................... 31

ASBS Chapter Conveners.............. 32

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions......................................................... 32