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Museum and University Data, Program and Information Exchange 
COMPUTERS IN PALEONTOLOGY 
Part B of the Proceedings of the North American Paleontolog¬ 
ical Convention* held in Chicago in 1969, has been published under 
the auspices of Allen Press* and can be purchased from them for 
$3.50 (Allen Press* Lawrence* Kansas* 66045). Six papers are 
included in this symposium. The titles are listed below to give 
a clue as to what was covered: 
J. F. Mello. Paleontologic data storage and retrieval, 
pp. 57-70. 
D. M. Raup. Modeling and simulation of morphology by 
computer. pp. 71-83. 
R. L. Kaesler. Numerical taxonomy in paleontology: class¬ 
ification* ordination and reconstruction of phylogen- 
ie s . pp. 84-100. 
M. A. Buzas. On the quantification of biofacies. 
pp. 101-16. 
W. T. Fox. Analysis and simulation of paleoecologic 
communities through time. pp. 117-134. 
E. C. Olson. Current and projected impacts of computers 
upon concepts and research in paleontology. pp. 
135-53. 
AVAILABLE PROGRAMS 
PITFALL I--A general purpose data processing program for environ¬ 
mental data* written by N. C. Bull* J. J. Beauchamp* and 
D. E. Reichle. Designed for the processing and analysis 
of complicated data sets which need storage* recall* sum¬ 
marization and basic statistical analysis. Developed to 
handle ecological data obtained in environmental monitor¬ 
ing. Handles any number of parameters* although will pro¬ 
cess only two simultaneously. Especially useful for prob¬ 
lems of environmental quality and biological productivity. 
Includes three integrated programs; one to transfer raw 
data from cards to mag tape* one to combine* recall* and 
print raw data with statistics* and one to permit statis¬ 
tical evaluation of summarized data sets using analysis 
of variance. Available from Clearinghouse for Federal 
Scientific and Technical Information* Springfield* Va. 
22151* for $3.00. Refer, no.: CRNL-IBP-70-2. 
[UNNAMED]—A FORTRAN IV program* written by G. L. Baskerville* 
for judging homogeneity of variance around regression for 
data untransformed or transformed by logarithms. Avail¬ 
able as above from Clearing House* for $3.00. Refer, 
no. : ORNL-IBP — 70—1. 
