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[Peter Linder]

THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN SOCIETY OF
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

First Announcement


This is the first southern African systematics conference, and we hope to attract
all systematists working on the southern African biota.  The conference will
launch a new society for southern African systematic biology, and will
be associated with several workshops and a post-congress tour.

The conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, some 50 km from
Cape Town, in the mountainous Cape winelands region.  It will
take place from 11 to 15 January, 1999.

The conference will include the following focussed sessions:
  An historical overview of southern African systematic biology
  Systematics and conservation of southern African biodiversity
  Systematics, large data sets, and large genera
  Infraspecific variation and hybridization
  Biogeography of Africa, especially southern Africa
  In addition to the focussed sessions, there will be opportunities to
present contributed papers

Interested people who wish to receive the second circular, should contact Peter
Linder:
email: plinder at botzoo.uct.ac.za
postal address: Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700,
South Africa
fax: +21-650 4041
Tel. +21 650 3398