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Table of Contents<br />

Acknowledgments ........................................................................ ii<br />

About This User's Guide ...................................................................iii<br />

List of Figures .......................................................................... vii<br />

1 Introduction ..........................................................................1-1<br />

Software Required ................................................................1-1<br />

Hardware Required ...............................................................1-2<br />

Installing MUSE .................................................................1-2<br />

2 MUSE Data Files ......................................................................2-1<br />

Curatorial Data ...................................................................2-1<br />

Primary Data .............................................................2-1<br />

Locality Data .............................................................2-1<br />

Taxonomic History ........................................................2-1<br />

Taxonomic Dictionary ......................................................2-1<br />

Names ..................................................................2-2<br />

3 Some MUSE Concepts ..................................................................3-1<br />

Catalog Numbers .................................................................3-2<br />

Collecting Events .................................................................3-2<br />

Field Numbers ...........................................................3-2<br />

Site Names ..............................................................3-2<br />

If No Field Number Exists ...................................................3-2<br />

4 Getting Started ........................................................................4-1<br />

Starting MUSE ...................................................................4-1<br />

Muse Statistics ...........................................................4-2<br />

5 Menus and Moving Around in MUSE ......................................................5-1<br />

Menu System ....................................................................5-1<br />

Choosing Menu Items ......................................................5-1<br />

Getting Help .....................................................................5-1<br />

Answering Prompts ...............................................................5-2<br />

Configuration ....................................................................5-2<br />

Exiting Muse ....................................................................5-2<br />

6 Browsing and Editing Records ............................................................6-1<br />

Examining Data ..................................................................6-1<br />

Editing Records ...........................................................6-1<br />

Browsing ................................................................6-1<br />

Selecting Records to Examine .......................................................6-1<br />

Primary & Taxonomic History ................................................6-1<br />

Locality .................................................................6-2<br />

Wildcards ...............................................................6-2<br />

Paging Through Records ...........................................................6-2<br />

Editing A Record .................................................................6-2<br />

Moving Through Fields .....................................................6-2<br />

Editing Data ..............................................................6-3<br />

Saving Records ..................................................................6-4

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