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Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2003

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Call for Papers

Extension for submissions to 16 June 2003

Abstracts of up to 300 words with the submission form should be forwarded to:
Conference Management: bhewitt@unimelb.edu.au

Abstract Submission Guidelines

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This document is an example of the preferred style to be used to format your abstract for submission to 150 years National Herbarium of Victoria Conference. A joint conference of the Australian Systematic Botany Society and Australasian Mycological Society with the 7th Bryological Workshop and Orchid Conservation Forum II to be held at The University of Melbourne from Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2003. You can use the Style sheet in this document (if you know how to use style sheets), otherwise follow the directions given in the document below.

The paper will be published exactly as you submit it, so be careful to follow the guidelines carefully.

The preferred file format for submission of your paper is Microsoft Word. Use A4 paper size settings and use 2.5cm margins all around, that is: Top 72pt, Bottom 72pt, Left 72pt, Right 72pt. Leave the Gutter at 0cm. The abstract should be no more than 300 words, and is Arial, 12 point justified, in single spacing (style: Abstract).

Submissions should be forwarded as email attachments to Conference Management at The University of Melbourne: bhewitt@unimelb.edu.au

Authors should ensure that submissions are lodged will conference Management by 31 May 2003. Acknowledgement of receipt of the submission will be sent by return email. Authors will be notified of acceptance by email. Acceptances will be published on the conference website: www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/150years

Authors should note that presentation is conditional on registration to attend the conference.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ 150 years Conference - National Herbarium of Victoria. Celebrating 150 years of plant research in Australia. Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2003

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Themes

• Plant Systematics
• Biogeography
• Bryology
• Lichenology
• Mycology
• the 7th Bryological Workshop
• Orchid Conservation Forum II
• Specialist sessions

 

A conference celebrating the sesquicentenary of the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) and systematic botany in Australia.

The National Herbarium of Victoria was founded on 26 January 1853 with the appointment by Governor La Trobe of Dr Ferdinand Mueller as the first Government Botanist for Victoria, thus creating Australia's oldest herbarium and one of Victoria's oldest scientific institutions. Mueller's appointment was the first official appointment of a botanist in Australia to study the flora of Australia.

Mueller set about the task of building the National Herbarium of Victoria with great vigor. Through assiduous collecting on expeditions, the purchase of significant overseas collections, exchanges with overseas herbaria, and the gentle persuasion of all people he knew or with whom he corresponded, the plant collections grew rapidly in number and taxonomic importance during his lifetime. The entire Australian component of the collection was shipped progressively to the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for study by George Bentham while he was writing Flora Australiensis

The plant, algal and fungal collections of the National Herbarium of Victoria, together with the rich collection of botanical literature and art works, form the State Botanical Collection that is afforded statutory protection in terms of the Royal Botanic Gardens Act 1991.

This conference will be held under the auspices of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, the Australian Systematic Botany Society, and the Australasian Mycological Society.

The conference will include:

• Sessions on Legumes, Myrtaceae, Russulales, Lichenology, Bryology, Orchid conservation etc ·
• Nancy Burbidge Memorial Lecture
• Australian Virtual Herbarium workshop/forum: uses and progress (HISCOM)
• Australian Systematic Botany Society AGM
• Australasian Mycological Society AGM

Associated events of the conference will include:

• Orchid Conservation Forum II
  (25-27 Sept. 2003).
  For details contact: Rob.Cross@rbg.vic.gov.au
• the 7th Australasian Bryological Workshop
  (4-9 Oct. 2003).
  For details contact: Pina.Milne@rbg.vic.gov.au
• Book launch of Novelty to Rarity - a History of the National Herbarium of Victoria written by H.M. Cohn
• Botanical Art exhibition highlighting the State Botanical Collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria.
• Bryophyte Illustration Exhibition