X-Sender: jsn@mailserver.nhm.ac.uk Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:39:27 +0100 From: John Noyes jsn@MAILSERVER.NHM.AC.UK Subject: World Chalcidoidea database on CDrom Dear All, Sorry if you get this cross-posted, but I want to get it to as many interested parties as possible. John WORLD CHALCIDOIDEA DATABASE ON CDrom This CDrom is now available. It contains a complete World Catalogue of all 26,000 names used in Chalcidoidea, more than 95,000 host records, over 110,000 distribution records, more than 300 colour images of adults and immature stages of most families, and an immense amount of information on their use in biocontrol, biology, physiology, etc. [If all the contained information was to be printed in the same style as Peck's 1963 Catalogue of Nearctic Chalcidoidea then it would be approximately 18,000 pages long.] The catalogue is based on Dicky Yu's TAXA information system and uses a Windows 95 environment. The system provides an easy way to look up, search, manipulate and extract data and is by far the best system currently available for these type of data. All this at the knock-down price of 249 US dollars. The catalogue is currently available only in Windows 95 version. Sadly, there are no plans to produce a MAC version, but it can be accessed by MAC users with Softwindows. However, I am told that if there is a very strong interest in a MAC version, ETI (the publishers) may reconsider. Those who would like a MAC version should contact me (jsn@nhm.ac.uk) to forward the suggestion or, the director of ETI, Peter Schalk, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Phone: 31.20.5257239; Fax: 31.20.5257238; E-mail: pschalk@eti.uva.nl]. ETI have a web site at http://www.eti.uva.nl/ The CDrom can be obtained from the distributors: Springer-Verlag Postfach 31 13 40 D-10643 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 30 82787303 Fax +49 30 82787301 e-mail: orders@springer.de (Please give your complete mailing address. Local VAT is effective.) http://www.springer.de/newmedia/lifesci/eti.htm Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Attn: Order Dept. 333 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, NJ 07094, U.S.A. fax (201) 348-4505 telephone (800) 777-4643 x599 or (212) 460-1599. http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/emedia/wbd.html UNESCO Publishing 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 SP France Fax: +33 1 45685737 or +33 1 45685741 http://www.unesco.org/publishing A small number of copies are being purchased by CTA, Wageningen for distribution free in developing countries. Entomologists in developing countries who cannot afford to purchase a copy could try contacting CTA (CTA, Postbus 380, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands [e-mail: cta@cta.nl; FAX 31 317 460 067]). John S. Noyes, Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK Tel.: +44 (0)171-938-9328 Fax.: +44 (0)171-938-8937 INTERNET: jsn@NHM.ac.uk See info at - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/entom/project2/index.html