President's Report

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ASBS Inc. Business

• Annual General Meeting, Council Elections, Nomination form .................... 3

Letters to the Editor

• On the distribution of ABRS grant funds to flora and fauna - Alex George .................... 5

Conferences

• Adelaide Systematics Conference .................... 5

Articles

• The identity of Eucalyptus salicifolia Cav. - A.R. Bean .................... 6

• The Taxonomic Impediment and the Convention on Biodiversity - K. Elaine Hoagland .................... 9

• Some notes concerning J.D. Batt (1843 - 1919) - P.S. Short .................... 16

• Intelectual Property Rights in Databases - Karen Wilson ................ 20

Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria

.................... 22

Australian Biological Resources Study

.................... 23

ABLO Report

.................... 25

News from FASTS

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

Awards

• CSIRO External Medal .................... 31

• Prize for Celia Rosser .................... 32

• Dr David Symon and the Australian Sysematic Botany Society .................... 32

Plant Notes

• Aphanes pumila .................... 34

• Millotia jacksonii .................... 35

Miscellany

• Robert Brown's manuscript names .................... 35

• New BRI email addresses .................... 36

• Australian Air Express .................... 36

• Draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy .................... 36

• 'I wish to thank' .................... 37

• An editorial comment .................... 37

• Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia .................... 37

• Joseph Hooker and Araucaria cunninghamii seeds .................... 38

Book Reviews

• "Evolution of Crop Plants; Flora of Victoria, Vol. 3." .................... 39