The Peabody Museum is pleased to offer several additions/enhancements to its collections gopher (gopher.peabody.yale.edu, port 70): (1) the Anthropology Division is now online and has posted 60,084 records from its Caribbean archeological collections to the gopher; notes and descriptions of the material can be found on the Anthropology menu. (2) there is a new service on the main menu that lets you search for any labeled feature appearing on topographic maps put out by the US Geological Survey; there are 1,233,933 records to peruse from across the USA, covering populated places, parks, lakes, mountains, and all sorts of other features; please read the help file before exploring. (3) the WAIS indexing/search engine has been modified so that search hits are returned in alphabetical order by header (for the collections databases, this means your results will always be sorted by taxon, which should simplify scrolling through hits); the alphabetizing holds for searches that specify untruncated keywords and/or booleans, but it does not necessarily hold when substrings are used (i.e., trailing "*" as in "substri*"). (4) restrictions on allowable keywords have also been relaxed in the WAIS engine as much as possible; now, all words except for single characters (a-z) and the coden "YPM" are potentially valid (this is essentially a purging of the file stoplist.c; a few other odd WAIS limitations remain in effect, and we are working on expunging them). (5) all catalogued lots in the Ichthyology databases now have at least partial collecting event data added to them (previously, only about 30 percent of the 9,908 lots had any such data); the "Notes" file on the Ichthyology menu discusses this a bit more. Enjoy! Larry Gall [log in to unmask] Systems Office 203-432-9892 voice Peabody Museum 203-432-9816 FAX Yale University New Haven, CT 06511