ANNOUNCING TEXAS NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS ONLINE SERVICES

[Dean A. Hendrickson]

THE TEXAS NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS (TNHC), a division of
TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM of the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN,
is pleased to announce availability of collections databases
and collections-related files:

               http:/www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www
           gopher://gopher.utexas.edu:3003/11/pub/tnhc
   (or follow gopher menus: Texas; University of Texas Austin;
      Colleges and Departments; College of Natural Sciences;
                Texas Natural History Collections)

WAIS-indexed databases from the ichthyology and herpetology
collections are searchable, and data from other divisions (geology
and invertebrate divisions) will soon be added.

We are also pleased to provide related collaborative projects
through the same location. The WWW pages of DESERT FISHES
COUNCIL include its complete bilingual Proceedings of meetings,
photographs of fishes, distribution maps, and abstracts of biology,
conservation status and management of selected fish species. The
Business Office of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ICHTHYOLOGISTS
AND HERPETOLOGISTS, now based at the TNHC, provides (WWW &
Gopher) an updated membership directory, meeting
announcements, and general information about the society. Finally,
the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS BIODIVERSITY RESOURCES AND
COLLECTIONS (UT-BRAC) collaborative project (WWW & Gopher)
provides links to other natural history and biodiversity resources
at UT Austin. Currently the PLANT RESOURCES CENTER and
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY LAB join the TNHC with online
databases and related files. Links to other University of Texas
natural history and biodiversity-related collections, and to external
regional biodiversity resources, will be added in the near future.

Please contact us should you experience any difficulties accessing
these files, or with your comments and questions.

Dean A. Hendrickson - Curator of Ichthyology
       deanhend at mail.utexas.edu
David C. Cannatella - Curator of Herpetology
       catfish at mail.utexas.edu
Carol K. Malcolm - Collections Manager for Ichthyology
       and Herpetology - cmalcolm at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu