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ASBS Inc. Business

• Deadline for December Newsletter .................... 2

• Newsletter and Subscriptions .................... 2

• Adelaide Conference '97 Update .................... 2

Letters to the Editor

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Conferences Report

• 'Botanic Gardens, Horticulture & Education: Partnerships in the Digital Era' - Trevor Christensen & Barry J. Conn .................... 4

Australian Biological Resources Study

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ABLO Report

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News from FASTS

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Obituaries

• Eric N.S. Jackson .................... 23

• Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson .................... 24

Miscellany

• N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium .................... 26

• Flora of the NT coastal floodplains .................... 27

• Email for MEL staff .................... 28

• Email and fax for AD .................... 28

• An editorial comment - 3. Who needs what? .................... 28

• Perceptions .................... 29

Book Reviews

• "Malesian Seed Plants. Volume 1 - spot-characters. An aid for identification of families and genera" .................... 30

• "Black nightshades: Solanum nigrum L. and related species" .................... 31

• "Freshwater Algae in Australia. A guide to conspicuous genera" .................... 32

• "The Tree of Liff" .................... 32

• "Checklist of the Mosses of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand" .................... 32