If you wish to know an identification key based upon vegetative characters,
see www.tropicalbotany.net
This website is linked to a database which is updated weakly, worth to say
that end July many pictures will be added for illustrating about 500 genera
of woody plants.
For comments, send mail to : roland.keller(a)ie-bsg.unil.ch
Roland Keller
Institut de Botanique
Université de Lausanne
Suisse (Switzerland)
The 2000 meeting of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group
(TDWG) will be held from 10th to 12th November at the
Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The theme of this
year's meeting will be "Digitizing Biological Collections".
For further details, please look at
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/tdwg/2000/
This provides a preliminary program of the meeting, information on
costs and how to register, and details of hotels.
For further information on TDWG, please look at the web site
http://www.tdwg.org or contact me.
Georgina MacKenzie
Secretary, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases (TDWG)
gmackenzie(a)york.biosis.org
Telephone: +44 1904 642816
Fax: +44 1904 612793
