ASBS Inc. business

Preliminary news from the ASBS Annual General Meeting..........................1

Nancy T. Burbidge Medal

Two Burbidge Medals awarded by ASBS..........................1

The President’s speech on David Mabberley’s award..........................1

David Mabberley’s acceptance speech..........................2

The Mabberley lecture.......................... 3

Articles

How Swedes celebrate Linné..........................4

In search of new species of Doryanthes..........................9

Some Muellerian artef10

News

Changes at the top in Sydney..........................12

ASBS member heads a new University super-school..........................12

Miscellanea

Last chance for proposing amendments to the Botanical Code..........................12

New popular book on plant collectors..........................12

New email addresses for "@ea.gov.au" in Canberra ..........................12

Book reviews

Another diary from The Investigator..........................13

Wanggalili: Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma plants..........................13

Conference report

Celebrating 150 years for MEL and Australian plant research..........................14

Workshop reports

Latin course in Darwin..........................17

AVH Representatives Meeting 2003 in Sydney..........................18

ABRS Report..........................19

ABLO Report..........................20

Coming conferences

The Fourth Southern Connections conference in Cape Town 19-23 January 2004 ..........................23

First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting, Paris, July 6 to 9, 2004 ..........................23

XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna 2005 18 th – 23 rd July (Nomenclature session 13 th – 16 th July..........................25

Interesting websites

Free-access web journal launched..........................25

Biodiversity hotspots..........................25

Plant Talk ..........................25

Paleobiology database..........................25

Genetic modification of crops ..........................25

World Atlas of Seagrass..........................26

Grants and other funding sources

Two Post-doctoral Fellowships at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand..........................26

Australian Biological Resources Study Call for Applications for 2004/2005..........................26

ASBS Publications ..........................27

ASBS Chapter Conveners..........................28

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ..........................28