Dear Bob,

Dreams sometimes become reality.

The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, New York,
has been working for about two years to provide an on-line,
illustrated, database depicting all the primary types of fossil
invertebrates in its collection. This in no small undertaking as PRI
has over 7,000 such lots and is in the top five museums in the USA in
terms of such holdings.

I believe plans are to go online with this program this summer. Look
at <http://www.priweb.org/collections/collections_info.html> for its debut.

Like dreams, however, I don't think this illustrated database is in
technicolor,

Harry

PS For at least one Conch-L'er: This work was funded by the federal
government (National Science Foundation), and nobody can say this
wasn't an egalitarian initiative. HGL


At 06:20 PM 6/4/2007, you wrote:
>Read all of this before you start looking.  Did you know that if you wanted
>to find where a holotype is stored you just have to ask your computer.  It
>will tell you where the holotype is stored and send you  digital pictures
>front and back of the holotype in color of course with all of the data and
>sometimes a picture of the living animal.  These digital pictures are stored
>on a disk in a safe place with several backups in other locations.  The old
>holotypes are not very good pictures, but the newer ones don't fade like the
>shells do, so you can see what the fresh specimen looked like when it was
>named.  Isn't that great.  Oh! I just woke up, but it was a good dream
>anyway.  This is possible, and may be in the works as we speak.
>
>Bob Lipe
>Visit us at our website
>http://www.theshellstore.com
>or visit us at
>348 Corey Ave
>St. Pete Beach, FL 33706
>Phone: 727-360-0586
>Fax: 727-360-3668

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