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Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research; and for salamanders at the University 
of Michigan Museum. These indicate the many applications of the system, and 
are not confined to our own descriptor set." 
RECENT LITERATURE 
Batschelet, E. Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Problems in 
Animal Orientation and Certain Biological Rhythms. AIBS Monograph, 1965, 
pp. 1-57. 
Ellin, E. An International Survey of Museum Computer Activity. Computers 
and the Humanities, Vol. 3, 1968, 65-87. Ellin is the director of the "Museum 
Computer Network," a group that MUDPIE readers will have to know more about'. 
The paper is a summary of activity on the part of Art Museums, primarily. 
Harbaugh, J. W. and D. E. Merriam. Computer Applications in Stratigraphic 
Analysis. Wiley, 1968. Primarily a summary of the ways computers have been 
used by geologists, this book really is an explanation of methods and techniques 
rather than a discussion of computer use. The uniting factor for the material 
covered is that the techniques are impractical for use unless a computer is 
available. Programs are not included, but a bibliography provides lists of 
papers that do include programs, and also a list of sources of programs is 
given on p. 278. 
Jameson, D. L. Information Retrieval for the Working Scientist: A Simple 
Algorithm. Bioscience, 19 (3), 1969, pp. 232-33. 
Rasberry, S. D., M. Margoshes, and B. F. Scribner. Applications of a 
Time-Sharing Computer in a Spectrochemistry Laboratory: Optical Emission and 
X-Ray Fluorescence. Nat. Bur. Stand. Tech. Note 407, 1968, 1-55. This paper 
deals almost entirely with time-sharing, and is of general interest to anyone 
thinking of setting up the operation. Some of the programs included are 
equally of interest, since they can be applied outside of spectrochemistry very 
easily. The program documentation is in a section called "Supplement to NBS 
Technical Note 407," and both should be obtained. 
Santiago, A. Systematics of Knowledge with Enneamatry and Data Processing 
Machines. Amer. Documentation, Vol. 19, 1968, pp. 158-162. 
Smithsonian Institution 
March 28, 1969 
