ASBS Inc. business
    From the President ................. 3
    28 th Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc. ................. 3
    Attachment 1 – Minutes of the 2005 Annual General Meeting ................. 5
    Attachment 2 – President’s Report ................. 5
    Attachment 3 – Treasurer’s Report ................. 6
    Attachment 4 – Newsletter Report ................. 14
    Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund report ................. 14
    Life Membership awarded to Robyn Barker ................. 14
    Criteria for ASBS Award nominations ................. 15
        Life Membership ................. 15
        Nancy Burbidge Medal ................. 16
    Welcome to new members in 2006 ................. 16
    Photograph: Members of the 2005 and 2006 ASBS Councils. ................. 16
Puzzle answer ................. 16
Eichler Research Fund reports
    A molecular phylogeny for Australian Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) and the affinities of a putative new taxon ................. 17
    Molecular systematics of Tetratheca and allies ................. 20
Articles
    DNA barcoding: good for taxonomy? ................. 22
    Flora Tasmanica exhibition opening address ................. 25
Miscellanea
    Change of standard form of name J. Kellermann ................. 27
    Collecting Charophytes. ................. 28
    Ongoing Lavandula research in Australia ................. 28
    A view of herbaria and botanic gardens in Nature ................. 29
News
    Australia Day Honours for services to Eucalyptus ................. 29
    An Atlas of Living Australia ................. 29
CHAH business
    Australian Plant Census ................. 30
ABRS report ................. 31
ABLO report ................. 33
Art competitions
    Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize ................. 33
    Margaret Flockton Award ................. 33
Book reviews
    A Flora of Australia macrofungal first ................. 34
    A local Perth flora ................. 35
    Bioinformatics ................. 37
    Nitrogen fixation in Acacias ................. 40
Exhibitions of interest
    Flora Tasmanica exhibition at Canberra Botanic Gardens ................. 42
    400 Years of Dutch history – Sydney and Canberra exhibits ................. 42
    Botanical illustrations in Sydney ................. 42
    Joseph Lycett art exhibition for Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra ................. 43
    Cook exhibition in Canberra ................. 43
    Australian landscapes in Canberra ................. 43
    Lhotsky’s journal ................. 43
Conferences
    Acacia 2006: Knowing and Growing Australian Wattles ................. 43
    The Impact of Peter Raven on Evolutionary and Biodiversity Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries ................. 43
Websites of interest
    New York Digital Library ................. 44
    Looking for an artist? ................. 44
    Key to Tasmanian Dicotyledons ................. 44
From Taxacom
    New World Checklist of Selected Plant Families website ................. 44
    New version of Kew Bibliographic Databases ................. 44
    A Spanish digital botanical library ................. 44
    London plane tree: a word of warning? ................. 44
ASBS Publications ................. 45
ASBS Chapter Conveners ................. 46
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ................. 46