Editorial

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ASBS Inc Business

• Life membership of the Australian Systematic Botany Society .................... 2

• Minutes of the 20th AGM .................... 3

• Treasuer's report .................... 5

• Financial report .................... 7

• Newsletter editor's report .................... 10

• 1998 subscriptions .................... 11

• Hansjorg Eichler Research Fund Awards 1998 .................... 11

• Request for material .................... 11

ABRS Report

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ABLO Report

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Obituaries

• A personal tribute to Emeritus Professor Noel Charles William Beadle .................... 24

• Lindsay Dixon Pryor (1915 - 1998) .................... 25

Articles

• Phylogeny, biogeography and pollination ecology in Stylidium section Stylidium .................... 26

• Our beginning .................... 27

Subscription to CSIRO Journals

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Book Reviews

• Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean .................... 28

• Contemporary Plant Systematics .................... 30

• Eucalyptus .................... 33

News from FASTS

• President's report to Council .................... 34

• President's address to Council .................... 36

• FASTS on ARC grants .................... 39

• FASTS chooses next President .................... 39

• Letter to the Minister for Education .................... 40