Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter

Number 89, December 1996

CONTENTS

President's Report

.................... 1

Annual General Meeting

• Minutes - Chris Puttock .................... 3

• Treasurer's Report - Peter Wilson .................... 5

• Auditor's Report .................... 7

Letters to the Editor

• Towards a unified systematics society - Christopher Quinn .................... 11

Articles

• Port Essington and the plant collections of John W. Armstrong - Tony Bean .................... 13

• A little more about C.A. Gardner - George Chippendale .................... 15

• Are plants intelligent? - George Chippendale .................... 16

• The end of botany? - Peter Crane .................... 17

• A tercentenary - Alex George .................... 20

• Notes on Australian specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN: Herb. McNab) relating to the second edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewensis - E. Charles Nelson .................... 21

Thesis Abstracts

• Systematic studies in Homopholis (Poaceae: Panicoidae: Paniceae) - Karen Elizabeth Wills .................... 25

• Taxonomy and reproductive biology in Hibbertia Andr. subsection Subsessiles Benth. - Catherine Nano .................... 26

Australian Biological Resources Study

.................... 27

Australian Botanical Liaison Officer

.................... 31

News from FASTS

.................... 36

Field Trips

• Gregory National Park: the 1996 Mueller Commemorative Expedition - Neville Walsh .................... 40

Book Reviews

• Wildflowers of southern Western Australia .................... 42

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