The 2001 meeting of TDWG will be held in Sydney, Australia from the 9th to 11th November, 2001. It will form part of the "Biodiversity Knowledgement Management Forum" - a series of meetings (Species 2000, HISCOM, IOPI, SPP) mainly happening in and around Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney then moving on to Canberra.

A draft program for the meeting is now available from the Biodiversity Knowledgement Management Forum's website:

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/bioforum/index.html

Georgina MacKenzie, Secretary, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster, International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases (TDWG)

gmackenzie@york.biosis.org Telephone: +44 1904 642816 Fax: +44 1904 612793

54 Micklegate, York, YO1 6WF, UK

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