The official opening of the Van Steenis Building which houses the Rijksherbarium was reported in Taxon 46 (1997) 125-127, with a photograph of HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dr. P. Baas inserting the types of species named for the occasion; see Flora Malesian Bulletin 11 (1996) 491-492. Apparently it was a highly amusing episode, viz. the huge smiles.