Editorial

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ASBS Inc Business

• Have you paid your 1998 subscription? .................... 3

• Where does your newsletter go? .................... 3

• Back issues of the newsletter .................... 3

• Changes to the constitution .................... 3

Conferences/Workshops

• ASBS 1999 conference .................... 4

• NZBS botanical symposium .................... 5

• A voyage to paradise .................... 5

ABRS Report

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ABLO Report

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Exchange Program

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Subscription to CSIRO Journals

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Obituary

• A tribute to George Anderson McDonald Scott .................... 10

Articles

• 100 years ago: Botany in decay .................... 12

• Problems with Apomicts .................... 12

• Serendipity .................... 13

Herbarium News

• Western Australian Herbarium Address List .................... 14

• AD update ............... 14

Book Reviews

• False Economy .................... 15

• Worterbuch der Botanik .................... 16

• George Bentham Autobiography 1800-1834 .................... 17

• Biological Systematics. The State of the Art .................... 18

Know Your Botanical Institution

• Darwin Botanic Gardens .................... 21

News from FASTS

• FASTS release on the 1999 Budget .................... 22