Bar Codes for Entom Specimens

[Peter Rauch]

Recently, there were some 20+ messages posted to entomo-l regarding
the use of bar codes for labeling entomological specimens. Reference
was made to the article, "Bar Codes for Specimen Data Management",
Insect Collection News 9:2-4, Aug 1994, by F. Christian Thompson.

Yuo can now obtain a copy of this article by gopher (or WWW, or
anonymous ftp) access to muse.bio.cornell.edu; for gopher access,
select the following pathway to the document:

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         Root gopher server: muse.bio.cornell.edu

8. Data Models and Standards Projects/

      3. Entomology Collections/

            1. Bar Codes for Specimen Data Management.
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That is, choose item 8 on the Root page; then choose item 3 on the
Data Models and Standards Projects page; then choose item 1 on
the Entomlogy Collections page to read or download the article.

Thanks to author Chris Thompson and to Ron McGinley, editor of ICN, for
permission to post the article, and to Julian Humphries for making
available the Cornell Biodiversity and Biological Collections
gopher/www/ftp servers.

Peter Rauch