International Organisation of Palaeobotany Newsletter 51 (April 1994)

• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Domain Newsletters 1994
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/23118; http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=nl94031

International Organisation of Palaeobotany (IOP) Newsletter 51 (April 1994) International Union of Biological Sciences Section for Palaeobotany Code: NL94031 Size of Files: Text: 34K Graphics: No Associated Graphics Files CONTENTS * IOP NEWS - SECRETARY'S SUPPORT TO THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER - NEW REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES - LEADERS OF THE 1994 EUROPEAN PALAEOBOTANY CONFERENCE - PLANT FOSSIL RECORD DATABASE VERSION 2 This was launched at the April presentation of the United States' initiative Systematics Agenda 2,000 in London. PFR2 contains more than three quarters of a million plant fossil occurrence records, taxonomic descriptions of the 10,477 plant fossil genera of PFR1, and a skeleton bibliography. * NEWS OF FORTHCOMING MEETINGS - FIRST WALTER A. BELL MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM ON PALAEOBOTANY AND COAL SCIENCE, Euramerican Carboniferous Paleobotany, May 28 - June 1, 1995, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSIFICATION AND EVOLUTION OF TERRESTRIAL PLANTS IN GEOLOGICAL TIME. September 4-9, 1995, Nanjing, China. - ERIC HOLTTUM MEMORIAL 1895-1990 PTERIDOPHYTE SYMPOSIUM, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. 17th July-21 July 1995. - SOUTH AMERICAN PALEOBOTANISTS AND PALYNOLOGISTS, Sao Paulo, 5-9 December 1994 * T.M. HARRIS ON 'RED EGGS' Seven years ago, when Mahendra Bose and I worked on some Early Cretaceous cuticle-bearing beds in the Arctic, we came across oxidation resistant 'egg-like' objects which we subsequently described as cocoons of clitellates (Manum et al. 1991, 1992). * NEWS OF INDIVIDUALS * NOMENCLATURE - CHANGES IN ADMINISTERING FOSSIL PLANT NOMENCLATURE This year marks a milestone in the history of the Fossil Plant Committee "of" (or more correctly, if more pedantically, "sponsored by") the International Association of Plant Taxonomy. - BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE AT TOKYO The XV International Botanical Congress in Tokyo, meeting at Yokohama, Japan, in August-September 1993, restructured the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and made important improvements designed to reduce changes in the instability of names. - TEXT OF RESOLUTION 1 SUBMITTED TO THE FINAL PLENARY SESSION OF THE XV INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS - PUBLICATIONS OF ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA Acta Palaeontologica Polonica is in the process of expansion in scope and coverage. The Acta publishes papers in all areas of theoretical, systematic and morphological paleontology. * BOOK REVIEW - VEGETATION OF WEST JAVA, INDONESIA. Stuijts, I.- L. M. (1993). A.A. Balkema. Rotterdam, Brookfield.