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ICSEB-BOULDER 1973 
You will find a postcard enclosed with this MUDPIE , which is 
the preliminary announcement of the First International Congress 
of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, to be held in Boulder, 
Colorado August 4-11, 1973. I hope any of you interested will 
return the postcard so further information can be sent to you. 
You will note that the ninth symposium listed is called 
"Computer Revolution in Systematics" (I refuse to spell it 'corn- 
put or ' ) . I have agreed to serve as organizer for this symposiurn, 
and I would like to enlist the cooperation of MUDPIE readers 
in the construction of the program. I have allready indicated 
to the steering committee that the symposium will not repeat 
not be concerned with numerical taxonomy. If the numerical tax¬ 
onomists are interested in the organization of a session on the 
program, it will have to fall into a separately organized period. 
I am convinced that the next two years will see a continued de¬ 
velopment and acceleration of the use of the computer by systema- 
tists in general, so the Congress provides an excellent opportu¬ 
nity for presentation of a broad spectrum of demonstrated utility 
to a large group of systematists receptive to computer potential. 
There has been no schedule announced as yet concerning the 
submission of a program and speakers for the symposium, so there 
is still plenty of time for planning and organization. I am 
thinking at present of topics such as the following: potential¬ 
ities of an inter-museum and university taxonomic network; devel¬ 
opment of taxonomic matrices for storage of descriptive data; 
program packages for the output of information such as keys, 
descriptions, and so on from matrices; storage and retrieval 
of catalogue data, bibliographic information, synonymies and 
phylogenies; mutual access to data banks; automation of standard 
museum procedures such as loans, exchanges, and other record-keep¬ 
ing chores. I am wide open for suggestions on other topics of 
similar nature, or for suggestions of names of qualified symposi¬ 
um participants. The objectives of the symposium are so close to 
the purposes of MUDPIE that I was tempted to call this the second 
MUDPIE conference, but I am afraid the steering committee of 
ICSEB might objectJ--James A. Peters. 
DATA PROCESSING IN NATURAL HISTORY 
A bibliography of seven mimeographed pages under the above 
title is available from the Natural History Division, Provincial 
Museum and Archives of Alberta, 12845 102nd Avenue, Edmonton, 
Alberta, Canada, as "reference list no. 75." It appeared in May, 
1970. The material is classified under the following major head¬ 
ings: Principles; Problems; Bibliography; Biology and Ecology; 
Botany, Herbaria, Botanical Gardens; Geology; Museums; Paleontol¬ 
ogy; Taxonomy; and Zoology.—JAP. 
