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Announcements:
A New Volume of Systematic Botany Monographs
Volume 90. Monograph of Mitrephora (Annonaceae), Aruna D. Weerasooriya and Richard M. K. Saunders, 167 pp + 4 color plates, 22 February 2010. ISBN 978-0-912861-90-6. US orders: $25.00; non-US orders: $33.00.
Postage and handling included. Send orders to Systematic Botany Monographs, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228, USA, with checks payable to “ASPT”; VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover accepted. Fax: 734-998-0038; e-mail chra@umich.edu
Comment on the ASPT Herbarium Best Practices draft document by downloading it here. Send commments to the ASPT Collections Committee.
Two new volumes of Systematic Botany Monographs are now available:
Volume 88. Systematics of Glossoloma (Gesneriaceae), John Littner Clark, 128 pp, color frontispiece, 19 October 2009. ISBN 978-0-912861-88-3. US orders: $20.00; non-US-orders: $25.00.
Volume 89. Monograph of Artemisia Subgenus Tridentatae (Asteraceae–Anthemideae), Leila M. Shultz, 131 pp, color frontispiece, 19 October 2009. ISBN 978-0-912861-89-0. US orders: $20.00; non-US-orders: $25.00.
Postage and handling included. Send orders to Systematic Botany Monographs, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228, USA, with checks payable to “ASPT”; VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover accepted. Fax: 734-998-0038; e-mail chra@umich.edu
The OSH herbarium has been named after Neil Harriman. See the notice here.
The newest newsletter issue (Volume 23, issue 2) is now available! See the Newsletter site.
Systematic Botany is now ranked among the top 100 journals in Biology and Medicine!