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. stable but should further secured by fastening to adjacent walls and braces between rows. Also, the shelves themselves need reinforcement to prevent bowing. We have tentative plans to allocate space either in an adjacent room (33A) or along a portion of the south wall of the lab to accommodate excess backlog and future UCRB collections. This expansion of collection holding facilities will require some remodeling and additional rows of shelving, preferably metal shelves. On-line Searches of the Larval Fish Laboratory Collection Catalog The LFL collection catalog is now available for on-line Internet searches via the (World-Wide) Web or Gopher. Copies of our catalog data files reside on a MUSEServer maintained by the MUSE Project at Cornell University. Updated primary and locality files will be periodically forwarded to that Server. Pending availability of an older, Windows- capable computer that can serve as LFL's own dedicated MUSEServer, on-line access will eventually be in real time and thereby include the very latest entries and corrections. For preserved collections maintained by LFL, the on-line catalog will complement the numerous dBase files of data maintained by the RIP database repository and provide quick and easy access from any internet-connected personal computer. Not all information in the database is provided via on-line searches-only catalog and field numbers, species, number and size of specimens, type status, country, state, county, locality, collection date, collectors, and remarks. To access the LFL and other fish-collection catalogs on the Web, use an appropriate Web browser (e.g., Mosaic or Netscape) and open to the Biodiversity and Biological Collections Server at http://muse.bio.comell.edu. From there select "Ichthyology", then "Query On-line Fish Database" which takes you to "Fish Searches" (or open directly to "Fish Searches" at http://muse.bio.comell.edultaxonomy/fishsearch.html). From there your options are: (1) query by example using taxonomy and geography, (2) query by catalog number or field number, (3) query by species with map-based output (USA only; Figure 3), or (4) query using hierarchical classification (beginning at class or subclass level and working down to species and individual records). If your browser can't handle forms or you prefer a W AIS-type Gopher search (searches on any word in available fields), options for Gopher searches are also available on the same Web page. If you don't have a Web browser, connect with the Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher site (muse.bio.comel1.edu) and select "FishGopher." As of this report, only LFL, Cornell University, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, and University of Michigan Museum of Zoology fish collections are available for MUSEServer (Web) searches. However, W AIS-type Gopher searches of individual or multiple catalogs also cover fish collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), Bishop Museum (Hawaii), Field Museum (Chicago), University of Alabama, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Swedish Museum of Natural History, and Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia da PUCRS (MCP, Brazil). Collection Permanency, Association with Other Collections or Museums As LFL holdings are properly cataloged and maintained, the status of these holdings as a long-term collection is vastly improving. Association of our collection with a more permanent collection or museum, especially one willing to adopt the specimens if 13