Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter

Number 78, March 1994

CONTENTS

Twentieth Anniversary

• On our 20th anniversary

  by M. Crisp .................... 1

• ASBS - then and now

  by T. Whiffin .................... 3

• Changes to the Newsletter

  by T. Clifford .................... 4

• ASBS officers 1973-present .................... 5

Articles

• The spelling of the generic name and an overlooked species of Siloxerus Labill.

  by P. Short .................... 6

Commentary

• Unwritten minutes of the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria

  by G. Chippendale .................... 8

• Single plant disjuncts

  by D. Symon .................... 8

Australian Systematic Botany Society Business

• Sixteenth general meeting .................... 9

• A.S.B.S. member profiles .................... 9

• Origin and Evolution of the Flora of the Monsoon Tropics conference .................... 11

Reports

• Australian Biological Resources Study .................... 12

• Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Kew .................... 13

• Workshop on Taxonomic Descriptive Databases .................... 14

• Queensland Herbarium .................... 16

• New broom for FASTS .................... 16

Reviews

• MacClade. Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution .................... 18

• A Key to Australian Grasses .................... 22

• A Bright and Savage Land .................... 24

• Management of Endangered Plants .................... 25

• Recent Publications .................... 26

Notices

• Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Gopher server .................... 26

• Humour in the biological sciences .................... 28

A.S.B.S. Publications

• .................... 30

A.S.B.S. Chapter Conveners, and Herbaria Phone Numbers

• .................... 32

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