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Museum and University Data, Program, and Information Exchange 
AVAILABLE PROGRAMS--GENERAL 
A MUDPIE recipient has remarked that we should stress the large number 
of library programs already available from the various commercial time-share 
firms. It is, of course, quite true that each contractor furnishes a collec¬ 
tion of programs that will fit practically every kind of general need, but 
it is assumed that all time-share users are already aware of this library 
availability. It would seem unethical for a user to make programs from the 
library of his contractor available to other users with a different contrac¬ 
tor, without direct permission. We shall, therefore, list no programs in 
MUDPIE that have been taken directly from the general library of a contract¬ 
ing firm. We are solely interested here in programs written by museum or 
university scientists for use in research, and will limit submissions to 
these. Since several time-share firms can accept ALGOL and FORTRAN as well 
as BASIC, programs written in these languages for specific use in our work 
are welcome for listing. At the present time no one receiving MUDPIES is 
using QUIKTRAN, so we will not include such programs. 
EDP-IR SYSTEMATICS PROJECT INDEX 
Theodore J. Crovello, Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame, 
Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556, and Robert D. MacDonald, University of Tennessee 
Arboretum, 794 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37830, are jointly 
preparing a list of projects in systematics that use any kind of electronic 
data processing for information retrieval. They say "the type of information 
being retrieved may be anything of value to systematics." After compiling 
the list, they expect to publish it in TAXON, the journal devoted to systematic 
botany. Anyone who has a project appropriate to their index is invited to 
submit it for inclusion, and a list of the details needed will be sent upon 
request to either of the participants. 
AVAILABLE PROGRAMS-- BASIC 
7. STATAN--Calculates Student 'T 1 as well as other statistical information 
Axtell, Southern Illinois University]. 
8. CLUSTR--A program for cluster analysis, operating in four phases: 
computation of similarities, formation of OTU clusters, 
computation of cophenetic values, and construction of a 
dendrogram. Written by Henry Feldman. 
Peters, Smithsonian Institution], 
