Editorial

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ASBS Inc Business

• Have you paid your 1998 subscription? .................... 2

• Proposed alterations to the Constitution .................... 2

• Annual General Meeting .................... 3

• Council Elections .................... 3

• Hansjorg Eichler Scientific Research Fund Applications ................. 3

Conferences/Workshops

• Media Skills Workshops for Scientists .................... 4

• Rainforests: past & future .................... 6

• Science Now! .................... 6

• 1998 Australian Global Warming Conference .................... 7

• ABRS Report .................... 8

ABLO Report

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Ferdinand Mueller Fellowship

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Obituary

• Anthony Godfrey Spooner .................... 10

Letters to the Editor

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Articles

• The Day the Sky Fell In .................... 13

• An Intriguing Collection .................... 14

• Speech to The Joint National Conferences of The Australian Systematic Botany Society & The Society of Australian Systematic Biologists .................... 15

• Address at the Welcoming Dinner for "Removing the Taxonomic Impediment" .................... 17

Herbarium News

• Western Australian Herbarium Address List .................... 19

• Microfiche of Herbaria Housed in Australian Collections ............... 20

Book Review

• Handbook of Vascular Plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands .................... 22

Workshop Review

• Blackberry Workshop .................... 23

Know Your Botanical Institution

• Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens .................... 24

News from FASTS

• FASTS circular for November-December .................... 27

• FASTS circular for January .................... 29

• FASTS circular for February .................... 31