What is actually systematics? What is the difference between it & taxonomy?
Systematics studies the diversification and relationships of past and present living forms. Taxonomy is only a part of systematics as defined by Michener et al. in 1970:


  Systematic biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that (a) provides scientific names for organisms, (b) describes them, (c) preserves collections of them, (d) provides classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, (e) investigates their evolutionary histories, and (f) considers their environmental adaptations. This is a field with a long history that in recent years has experienced a notable renaissance, principally with respect to theoretical content. Part of the theoretical material has to do with evolutionary areas (topics e and f above), the rest relates especially to the problem of classification. Taxonomy is that part of Systematics concerned with topics (a) to (d) above.


Source: Michener, Charles D., John O. Corliss, Richard S. Cowan, Peter H. Raven, Curtis W. Sabrosky, Donald S. Squires, and G. W. Wharton (1970). Systematics In Support of Biological Research. Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council. Washington, D.C. 25 pp.  

via Wikipedia contributors, "Systematics," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Systematics&amp;oldid=635316421 (accessed November 30, 2014).