(Fwd) temporary teaching post in Cape Town

[Peter Linder]

TEMPORARY LECTURER IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS:

The Botany Department of the University of Cape Town is seeking a
plant systematist to teach plant diversity and advanced systematics
courses during 1997.  This involves ca. 50 lectures and 20 practical
sessions, field excursions as well as some honours and
 post-graduate supervision.

The University is situated in Cape Town, in the heart of the Cape
Flora.  Facilities include the Bolus Herbarium, a good library,
electron microscope facilities and a modern greenhouse.  Space in an active molecular
laboratory is also available.  Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, with its
excellent living collections, is scarcely 5 km distant.  There is an
active group of post-graduate systematics students in the Department.

The post is temporary, and pay is approximately R 50 000 for the
year. There will be ample time for research during the year.

Applications, with the names of suitable referees,  should be made to:
The Head
Department of Botany
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7700
South Africa,

or preferably emailed to :
plinder at botzoo.uct.ac.za

before 2 December 1996.



Peter Linder
Bolus Herbarium
Botany Department
UCT
Rondebosch 7700
fax +27-21-6504041