News: Hawaii Biological Survey

[Scott Miller]

NEW WORLD WIDE WEB DATEBASE INTERFACE

The Hawaii Biological Survey at the Bishop Museum is pleased to announce a
new user-friendly search form on WWW for our Hawaiian Terrestrial
Arthropod Checklist. It can be accessed directly at:

http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/HBS/arthrosearch.html

The checklist database contains over 9500 records of terrestrial
arthropods occurring in the Hawaiian Islands.  The form allows the user to
fill in specific fields (genus, species, describer, year, etc. as well as
multiple choice fields for mode of origin (i.e., endemic, introduced,
etc.), island distribution, and endangered and threatened status). Uusing
this form for searching the database, the user can make the search
as specific as desired.  A short "help" page is available.

The multiple key search permits a variety of queries previously
unavailable through gopher.  For example, searches can be made for the
number of species of endemic flies described by Grimshaw from Molokai.

Other Hawaii Biological Survey databases currently on the Bishop Museum's
gopher server will use this WWW search interface in the near future
including checklists and bibliographies for many plant and animal groups
and type specimen holdings.

JUST PUBLISHED -- RECORDS OF THE HAWAII BIOLOGICAL SURVEY FOR 1995

Published as Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 45 and 46 (February 1996),
the Records of HBS include 122 pages of new information on the Hawaiian
biota, including an updated tabulation of the total number of species
known from the islands.

For further information, please contact the Hawaii Biological Survey by
mail (Bishop Museum, P.O. Box 19000, Honolulul, HI 96817, USA) or email
(hbs at bishop.bishop.hawaii.org).