From the President . . . . . 1
ASBS Inc. business
      Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund . . . . . 1
      New members . . . . . 1
Article
      Infra-specific variation in Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott (Araceae) . . . . . 2
Obituaries
      Vale Jennifer Anne Chappill: July 26th 1959 – August 8th 2006 . . . . . 6
      Neridah Clifton Ford (1926–2006) . . . . . 12
Personalia
      Bob Harwood . . . . . 13
News
      Teaching awards for systematics at University of New England . . . . . 14
CHAH Inc. business
      Australian Plant Census . . . . . 15
      Funding for an Atlas of Living Australia . . . . . 15
      New Australia’s Virtual Herbarium data capture funds . . . . . 16
      2007–08 ABLO appointed . . . . . 16
Miscellaneous
      Thanks . . . . . 16
      Request for Brassicaceae seed . . . . . 16
ABRS report . . . . . 17
ABLO report . . . . . 18
Notice: Membership fees now due . . . . . 19
Book reviews
      A first volume on Australian fungal pathogens . . . . . 20
      The first volume of Australia’s algal Flora . . . . . 21
      An illustrated glossary of mosses . . . . . 23
      A third edition of Australia’s Eucalyptus identification tool . . . . . 25
      A fifth edition of the classic Forest Trees of Australia . . . . . 27
      Matthew Flinders, his scientific gentlemen, and the 1801–05 Investigator expedition to Australia 29
      A biography of Peron . . . . 32
      Editorial note: Two other recent botanical history works . . . . 34
      Botanical Riches . . . . . 34
Meeting reports
      I’ll be home on a Sunday sometime around three – ASBS 2006 Cairns Symposium Report . . . 37
      ASBS Workshop: Molecular Tools in Plant Systematics, Cairns, November 2006 . . . . . 39
      10th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, September 2006 . . . . . 40
Coming meetings
2007 . . . . . 41
      Linnaean Tercentenary . . . . . 41
      Plant Genome Horizons – Vistas and Visions . . . . . 41
      5th World Conference of Science Journalists . . . . . 41
      Fungimap IV . . . . . 41
      21st New Zealand Fungal Foray . . . . . 42
      Flora Malesiana VII, . . . . . 42
      Evolution 2007 . . . . . 42
      21st Pacific Science Congress: Diversity and Change:
      Challenges andOpportunities in Managing Natural and Social Systems in Asia-Pacific . . . . . 42
      Tercentenary of the Birth of Carl Linnaeus. A Festival of Systematics and History. . 42
      21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology . . . . . 42
      World Conference of Bryology 2007 . . . . . 42
      Botany 2007 . . . . . 42
      Systematics 2007: Sixth Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association . . . . . 42
      Seed Ecology II . . . . . 42
      9th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (EMAPi9). . 42
      11th Evolutionary Biology Meeting . . . . . . 42
      14th Biennial NSW Weeds Conference “Weeds, People and Partnerships” . . . . . 42
      Australian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) . . . . . 42
      The Third Biennial Victorian Weeds Conference . . . . . . 42
      Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) . . . . . 42
2008 . . . . . 42
      16th Australian Weeds Conference: Weed Management 2008: Hot Topics in the Tropics . . . 42
      12th International Congress of Mycology . . . . . 42
      5th International Weed Science Congress . . . . . 42
      The 4th International Conference: The Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, and
      The 5th International Symposium: Grass Systematics and Evolution . . . . . 42