Dear All News from Nepal · The main item is the Flora of Nepal Project Meeting which will be held at NAST on 23 November (Mangshir 8th). We look forward to hearing about the progress made at the meeting, and Shandesh Bhattarai will prepare a brief report on it for the next Update. · Ram Chaudhary has moved within Tribhuvan University and is now Executive Director of TU-RECAST (Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology) News from RBGE · Max Weigend and his student Julia König have begun work on the account of the Boraginaceae for Volume 4. · Bhaskar Adhikari is mid-way through his fieldwork and has already collected a very impressive 38 species out of the 73 currently known from Nepal. With best wishes Colin Dr Colin A. PENDRY | Editor, Flora of Nepal | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | 20a Inverleith Row | Edinburgh | EH3 5LR Tel.: +44 (131) 248 2969 | Fax: +44 (131) 248 2901 | RBGE website: www.rbge.org.uk<http://www.rbge.org.uk/> | Flora of Nepal website: www.floraofnepal.org<http://www.floraofnepal.org/> -- The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a Charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983)