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Acknowledgments
For ideas, assistance, advice, criticism, support and patience in the development
of MUSE, we wish to express our gratitude to a number of people: Special thanks
go to Barry Chernoff (Field Museum of Natural History), Genie Böhlke and Bill
Saul (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), Bill Fink, Doug Nelson and
Jerry Smith (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology), and Karsten Hartel
(Museum of Comparative Zoology). To numerous others, we thank you for your
assistance and apologize for not individually acknowledging your help.
For providing taxonomic dictionary files used in MUSE, we wish to acknowledge
the generous contributions of two people: For the ichthyology taxonomic
dictionary, we thank Bill Eschmeyer of the California Academy of Sciences, and
for the herpetology dictionary we thank Chuck Myers of the American Museum
of Natural History.
For financial support for the development of MUSE software and the production
of custom-tailored versions for natural history collections, we thank the National
Science Foundation for their grants (BSR-8813349, DEB-9209099) to Julian
Humphries.
A portion of the form printing capability within MUSE was programmed by
Clifford Olling. We would also like to thank staff members at the Vertebrate
Collections at Cornell: Roxanna Normark, Jane Hauptman and Ingunn Sachs, for
their assistance in testing MUSE and improving the documentation. Almost all
current code is the work of David Biolsi, the MUSE programmer since 1989.
Earlier versions of the documentation were produced by Robert Beck.
Btrieve (the underlying record management system used by MUSE) is a
registered trademark of Novell.
SLATE (the printer database used by MUSE) is a registered trademark of The
Symmetry Group.
Acknowledgments