things you can't do

Jan Schlauer (zxmsl01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:24:00 +0100

Don,
>Other things you can do on the 'internet':
>>From the gopher at the Australian National Botanical Gardens, you can
>see data from many herbarium specimens (where the specimen was collected,
>what kind of soil was it growing in, etc). On this same gopher, you can
>also see a list of species being grown at several of the Botanical Gardens
>in Australia.

Other things you *CAN'T* do on the internet:
The last service mentioned is not that great as it sounds!
At the moment it is impossible to get connected with the ANBG, but the last
time I wanted to know e.g. which spp. of _Drosera_ were grown in AU, I got
the first 40 in the alphabet and then the list was cut off for no obvious
reason (no chance for _D.zonaria_!). At least in the last few months, there
was apparently no way (or time) in AU to solve these purely technical
problems.

Kind regards
Jan