Fairchild Tropical Garden (FTG) News - Buswell transfer

[Stinger]

Fairchild Tropical Garden is pleased to make some important
announcements:

1.) The Buswell Herbarium and the Julia Morton slide collection of the
University of Miami have been given to the Fairchild Tropical Garden
Herbarium. The herbarium consists of roughly 15,000 specimens including
several types.  Many of these sheets have not been previously cited in
the literature.  The slide collection has been transferred and the
herbarium collections will be transferred on Monday 15 March 1999.  They
will be fumigated for 6 weeks and then integrated with the FTG
collections as they are photographed and entered into our Virtual
Herbarium database.

2. ) A new web server, "Fairchild Tropical Garden Botanical Resource
Center", has been brought online (www.ftg.fiu.edu).  It currently holds
more than 6000 files including the beginning of  the FTG Virtual
Herbarium (with photos of each specimen and its label) and the Garden
Plantings List as well as several other databases of interest and many
of photos of living plants.  We are currently adding ca. 500 records a
week to the Virtual Herbarium database and an ASP interface is in
testing and will be implemented on the web site, along with a major
update (4000 more records), by the end of March.

3.) Dr. Javier Francisco Ortega has been appointed Assistant Professor
of Biology at Florida International University and is housed in
Molecular Systematics Laboratory of the Fairchild Tropical Garden
Research Center.

With the addition of  Dr. Francisco Ortega, the Fairchild Tropical
Garden (in partnership with the Florida International University and the
University of Miami) now has the appropriate resources to offer a fully
integrated and competitive program in Tropical Plant Systematics.
Graduate students are encouraged to apply.

--
Gerald "Stinger" Guala, Ph.D.
Keeper and Curator of the Herbarium
Systematist
Fairchild Tropical Garden
11935 Old Cutler Rd.
Miami, FL 33156

http://www.ftg.fiu.edu/