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Lichenology on-line
New Websites
The Newsletter on-line - Starting with 1997, the old issue of the Newsletter is available on-line in two versions (frames and text only) at the following addresses:
http://www.sbg.ac.at/pfl/ial/Newsletter/frames/home.htm (frames) Società Lichenologica Italiana - The new website of the S.L.I. provides information on the Society and on social events in 1998, a complete list of Italian lichenological literature in the last decade, and an index to the current and past numbers of the Notiziario. It also announces a prize, sponsored by the Society, for a thesis of lichenological content. Currently the page is in Italian only, but an English version will be available soon. Web site: http://www.lrcser.it/~sli British Lichen Society - The page has been updated on 30 September 1997. It now includes, in addition to the Society's prospectus and an application form, the Society's rules, general information, names and addresses of officers and chairpersons of committees, a listing of taxonomic referees and how to contact them, details of meetings and publications as well as an evaluation version of the new U.K. Parmelia Ach. CD-ROM which has already been well received. This CD-ROM includes; a) access through current names or synonyms, each with B.L.S. identification numbers, b) 117 high quality colour photographs in a readily accessible and inexpensive form, c) up to 4 photographs of every species highlighting the distinctive features, d) descriptions of each photograph, e) results of Pd, K, KC and C chemical spot tests and UV response, f) table of major chemical constituents indicated by TLC, g) cross-references to similar species, h) a table of habitats showing likelihood of occurrence on different substrates, i) descriptions of each of the revised genera, k) an improved key based on the Flora key, l) an extensive glossary of lichen terms, m) the original distribution maps and text of the Atlas, n) over 4,000 links to provide easy navigation through the document. The CD includes three fairly large images which may take a while to download after clicking on the 'thumbnails'. The cost is modest, £8-00 (including postage and packing) for a single user. Full details are available on the site: http://www.argonet. co.uk/users/jmgray Index Herbariorum - Updated information for U.S. herbaria listed in Index Herbariorum and its supplements (published in Taxon) is now available for searching by institution, city, state, acronym, staff member, correspondent, and research speciality at The New York Botanical Garden. Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and URL addresses are included. Please send corrections and updates to pholmgren@nybg.org and/or nholmgren@nybg.org. Updates will appear about every two months. Updated information for Canadian and Mexican herbaria should be available at this Web site within the coming six months. Other geographical areas will follow as time permits. http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html The Herbarium Hamburgense offers lists of its collectors and collections, including a list of lichens preserved in HBG, on the internet. The list contains 38.300 specimens of 3719 species which belong to 314 genera of lichens. Type-specimens are indicated. Some 15.000 further specimens, belonging to smaller, older collections and the newer herbaria of T.Feuerer, C.Marth, A.Niebel-Lohmann and others, are not yet incorporated. The lichens of the Herbarium Hamburgense are mainly drawn from the collections of C.F.E.Erichsen, T.Feuerer, O.Jaap, P.Junge, C.Kausch and C.T.Timm. Central Europe and South America are well represented. The oldest lichen collection found up so far dates from 1818. http://www.uni-hamburg. de/ialb/herbar/listen.htm Acharius Collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History described by Erik Acharius are to be found on http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/kbo/ach/acharius.html.en together with scanned images of over 60 of Acharius´ specimens and labels. Registration numbers can be used to search for more information about the specimens in the lichen type database on http://www.nrm.se/kbo/saml/lavtyp. html.en) and the web site is: http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/kbo/ach/welcome.html.en Cliff Wetmore's home page - Cliff has created his new web page. It has a few links but he is also adding Caloplaca keys and data. There is also a section on graduate work there and the schedae for his recently issued Lich. Exs. Min. Later he will be adding a lichen picture and more Caloplaca data. Check it out and pass the word. Cliff would be happy to hear comments. Web site: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~wetmore Lias Project An online key of the 'Genera of Lichenized and Lichenicolous Ascomycetes' by G. Rambold & D. Triebel is now being offered at: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/lias/liasonline.html. It works as an MS Access(tm) database installed on a Windows NT(tm) database server. Data are accessible to the public via a database application 'DeltaAccess' and the two different web interfaces DAP ('DeltaAccess Perl') and DAWI ('DeltaAccess Web Interface'). Both interfaces are still beta versions and under development. Only categorical characters from a total of 93 characters and nearly 600 character states are used for the determination of 795 genera. Query options by additional categorical and numerical characters will be implemented to the web interfaces. In forthcoming versions, text information (literature references, etc.) and full description output will also be available, together with pure determination data. Log files of the web server indicate that several hundred downloads of LIAS key modules at: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/ lias/modules.html. occurred during the last two years; however, user feedback to help in the improvement of these keys was almost zero. Resonance to improve the generic key data was also rather poor and less than 50% of the genera have been checked by specialists so far. For this reason, generic data still suffer from various shortcomings, e.g. by incompleteness of data due to reading errors and overlooked literature or by unsettled generic concepts. Thanks are due to A. Findling (Leibniz Rechenzentrum, München) for building up DAWI and for the installation of both interfaces on the LIAS web site, to G. Hagedorn (Biol. Bundesanstalt, Berlin), the author of DeltaAccess, for various help, and to the revisers of data sets listed at:: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/ lias/genrev.html. G. Rambold, München
The following back issues of ILN are still available:
Orders to be sent to H. Sipman, Bot. Garten & Bot. Museum, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany, fax: (+49) 30-83006186, e-mail: h.sipman@bgbm.org. The front-page illustration. Tornabenia africana A. Massal., inedited drawing by Abramo Massalongo
(kindly provided by G. Lazzarin, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona).
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