The New York Botanical Garden web site now includes a searchable version of entries in the Index to American Botanical Literature at: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/iabl.html. This Index has provided a service to the American botanical community for over a century, published initially in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and subsequently in Brittonia. The Index is compiled from resources of "The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden" and contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics (traditional and molecular) and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). The searchable database includes all those entries published in the Index since 1996, and thus includes botanical literature appearing since late 1995. The database is being updated on a regular basis. Retroactive indexing of previously published entries is envisioned.

The British Lichen Society website at http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/jmgray continues to be developed and updated regularly. Here you will find information about the Society's contribution to the world of lichenology, about who's who in the Society, who are the regional and specialist referees, the Rules of the Society, a prospectus with subscription rates and a printable membership application form, the Society's publications, including the ever expanding Lichen Atlas of the British Isles, details of the Society's first CD - an aid to the identification of the British Parmelias with a link to an evaluation copy, publications and items for sale, dates and places of field meetings and workshops, a copy of the annual Churchyard Lichens Fact Sheet and the informative leaflets on Lichens on Man-Made Surfaces and Churchyard Lichens, as well as a current list of the Lichens of the British Isles with BLS numbers both in text and as a CSV file. Since the publication of the 'frozen' list on 22^nd March it has became apparent that corrections were necessary and these have now all been listed on the site. If you were unaware of the existence of the list of 2,087 species you may like to know that it has undergone a major revision since the publication of the Check List in 1994 and now includes lichenicolous fungi as well as non-lichenized fungi. The list (last updated on 28^th May 1999) has been "refrozen" until new names and name changes are published in the Winter Bulletin. (J. M. Gray)

Lichens around Calgary (Alberta, Canada), can be found on the following Web-page: http://members.home.net/james.case/lichens, including keys to major growth forms, hyperlink keys, and checklists for species known to occur in the area. Contributions are welcome. The page is maintained by Dr. Jim Case (e-mail: james@casebio.com).

The National Forest Lichen Database for the US Pacific Northwest can be queried from the www now. Substrate can be used as a search criterion (e.g. type in PICO or PIPO for Pinus contorta or Pinus ponderosa). The database can also be searched by plant association (vascular plant community). You can search individual lichen species this way, or entire lichen communities. Find the queryable database on the FS homepage: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/aq, choose "get lichen information". That takes you to a page where you can choose "query the lichens, mosses and air quality database". The query section is very new and we are continuing to make improvements; suggestions are welcome. (L. Geiser)