ASBS Inc. business

Proposed changes to the ASBS financial year ..........................1
Hansjörg Eichler Grants to be offered twice a year ..........................2
2004 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Systematic Botany Society, Inc ..........................2

Attachment 1 – Minutes of the 2003 Annual General Meeting ..........................3
Attachment 2 – President’s Report ..........................3
Attachment 3 – Treasurer’s Report ..........................4
Attachment 4 – Newsletter Report ..........................12
Attachment 5 – Webpage Report ..........................12

Eichler Research Fund reports

Genetic variation and molecular phylogeny of an arid Acacia species complex (Acacia victoriae of section Phyllodineae) .........13
Systematics of the endemic Chloantheae (Lamiaceae) based on chloroplast ndhF, nuclear ITS and morphological data .........15

Point of view

Paraphyletic taxa should be accepted ..........................18

News

Staff changes at New South Wales National Herbarium ..........................19
David Mabberley moves on ..........................19

Obituaries

Sophie Ducker’s contribution to the history of botany ..........................20
The publications of Sophie C. Ducker ..........................22
Geoff Tracey ..........................26
Noel Lothian ..........................26

Miscellanea

Conservation Biology – an emerging science ..........................26
Margaret Flockton Award for scientific botanical illustration ..........................27
Tallest peak on Mondrain Island named for Baudin ..........................28
New eco-tourism route for Western Australia ..........................29
TREENET – facilitating street tree research and trials ..........................29

ABRS report ..........................30
ABLO report ..........................31
Conference report

James Drummond’s influence on south-west Australian botany, conservation and society ..........................32

Book reviews

Colonial Gardeners ..........................34
Tropical flowering plants ..........................36
The Botanical Endeavour: a response from the author to the review in Austral.Syst.Bot.Soc.Nsltr no. 119 ..........................38

ASBS Publications ..........................39
ASBS Chapter Conveners ..........................40
Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ..........................40