Index Kewensis on CD-ROM

[Curtis Clark]

At 06:28 PM 12/20/97 +0800, Les Watson wrote:
>     This is not the downside of modern technology.  It is the
downside of
>leaving the authoritative Index in the hands of an institution
which is
>unable or unwilling to apply the technology in a legitimate
way; viz., to
>render the Index readily and inexpensively accessible, in
continuously
>updated form, to the scientific community at large.

It's ironic that many of the botanists who actually provide the
data, in the form of new described species, will not be likely
to see their data in the Index. Admittedly there is a
significant amount of work and skill that goes into making the
Index, but it pales in comparison to the work put in by the
botanists that generate the data.


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