In the same mail was issue No. 4, 1990, of the Newsletter - Committee on Quantitative Stratigraphy (CQS), an organ of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It was an interesting issue, which, among other things, contained an announcement of Warren L. Kovach's Multivariate Statistical Package (MVSP) version 2.0 which is now available. Warren described the pre-release package in our last issue. I noted a number of familiar names on the CQS mailing list. If you are not, you may wish to contact the CQS Chairman, Dr. Felix M. Gradstein, Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, N.S., Canada B2Y 4A2.
For this issue I have asked Dr. Magdalena Ralska-Jasiewiczowa and Dr. Adam Walanus to describe POLPAL, the Polish Palynology Database that they are developing. Dr. Craig A. Chumbley has agreed to describe his very handy program PALYPLOT which produces a publication-quality pollen diagram using one of the less expensive CAD programs. Dr. H.J.B Birks has provided another of his valuable summaries of the literature. And I am including some material I have found useful.
I ask the readers of this Newsletter to send me information on any of the data-handling techniques that you have used which could be helpful to others. I have the mail and e-mail list on disk, and ask you to check both for accuracy. Send any corrections or suggestions to:
Louis J. Maher, Jr.
Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Wisconsin
1215 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
USA
Phone: (608) 262-9595
FAX: (608) 262-0693
BITNET: maher@geology.wisc.edu