Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 14:47:27 -0800 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 70 No. 70 February 14, 1994 Address: aceska@cue.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 [text deleted] EXPLORE THE WORLD OF BOTANICAL GOPHERS ! Don't believe the English proverb that you don't get something for nothing, gophers will prove you wrong. There is a wealth of the most useful information on the computer network and it is relatively easy to get what you want. If you want to search the Gray Herbarium Index, you find it at the Harvard University gopher. My gopher exploration usually starts there. Type gopher huh.harvard.edu and you will get the Gray Herbarium Index, herbarium catalogues of type specimens (in HUH - Harvard University Herbaria and in other locations). Through this gopher I can get connected to other gophers, and the Australian National Botanical Garden gopher is the most complete botanical gopher I know. For bryological information (lists of mosses and liverworts for certain parts of the world, bryological news, taxonomical and ecological software, etc.) go to gopher unidui.uni-duisburg.de For general information, religious books, world gazetteers, type gopher sunsite.unc.edu You can find Una Smith's Internet Guide for biologists here. If you are interested in environmental information, go to En- viroGopher; type telnet envirolink.org (login: gopher when you are connected). Gophers are easy to use. VERONICA is an extension to gophers, and you can use it to search for whatever topics through the whole gopherspace. You can get the VERONICA search from any gopher you enter. You don't have to know, how the gopher works, but if you are interested, read either of the following books: Krol, Ed. 1992. The whole Internet: User's guide and catalogue. O'Reilley & Associates, Sebastopol, California. Fisher, Sharon. 1993. Riding the Internet highway. New Riders Publishing, Carmel, Indiana. If you get lost in the gopherspace, my internet guru Gary Shear- man told me that you can get the internet address of a gopher you are in by typing "=" (without apostrophes). I tried it and it works. By using this internet address, you can get back to the same gopher without going and searching through the maze of other gophers. There is a Czech proverb that says: "It is foolish to give something for nothing, but it is even more foolish not to take it." Remember, you would be foolish not to use gophers! [text deleted]