Education and training are achieved by a variety of
means. The MAIC offers short courses annually in sev-
eral specialized areas, e.g., scanning electron micro-
scopy, transmission electron microscopy, vacuum
technology, surface science, and optical microscopy.
These are open both for graduate credit and to those
outside the university community. (The Chemistry
Department, IFAS, and the Engineering and Industrial
Experiment Station also regularly offer several short
courses of a complementary nature.) Some individ-
ually supervised training directed by Center per-
sonnel is available to graduate students.
 The overall aim of the MAIC is thus to make pos-
sible the solution of any scientific or technological
problem that requires state-of-the-art analytical in-
strumentation and to make these capabilities ac-
cessible to all university and state personnel. Cooper-
ation with state industries is also encouraged where
this is legal and appropriate.
 The administration and professional staff of the
 MAIC are located in 256 Rhines Hall where further in-
 formation may be obtained upon request.

 MONOGRAPH SERIES
 The Graduate School sponsors two monograph
 series devoted to the publication of research primarily
 by present and former members of the scholarly com-
 munity of the University. The Social Sciences Mono-
 graphs are published each year with subjects drawn
 from anthropology, economics, history, political sci-
 ence, sociology, education, geography, law, and psy-
 chology. The Humanities Monographs are published
 each year with subjects drawn from art, language and
 literature, music, philosophy, and religion.

 FLORIDA STATE MUSEUM
 The Florida State Museum was created by an act of
 the Legislature in 1917 as a department of the Univer-
 sity of Florida. Through its affiliation with the Univer-
 sity, it carries dual responsibility as the State Museum
 of Florida and the University Museum.
 The Museum is located at the corner of Museum
 Road and Newell Drive in a modern facility com-
 pleted in 1970. The public halls are open from 9 a.m.
 until 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m.
 on Sunday. The Museum is closed on Christmas Day.
 There is no admission charge.
 The Museum operates as a center of research in an-
 thropology and natural history. Its accessory functions
 as an educational arm of the University are carried
 forward through interpretive displays and scientific
 publications. Under the administrative control of the
 director are the three departments of the Museum:
 Natural Sciences, staffed by scientists and technicians
 concerned with the study and expansion of the re-
 search collections of animals; Anthropology, whose
 staff members are concerned with the study of his-
 toric and prehistoric people and their cultures;
 Interpretation, staffed by specialists in the interpreta-
 tion of knowledge through museum exhibit tech-
 niques and education programs. Members of the
 scientific and educational staff of the Museum hold
 dual appointments in appropriate 'teaching depart-
 ments. Through these appointments, they participate
 in both undergraduate and graduate teaching pro-
 grams.
 The Allyn Museum of Entomology, Sarasota, is part
 of the Department of Natural Sciences of the Florida


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State Museum. The combined Sarasota and
Gainesville holdings in Lepidoptera rank the Allyn
Museum of Entomology as the largest in the western
hemisphere and the premier Lepidoptera research
center in the world. The Allyn Museum publishes the
Bulletin of the Allyn Museum of Entomology and
sponsors the Karl Jordan Medal. The Allyn Collection
serves as a major source for taxonomic and biogeo-
graphic research by a number of Florida State
Museum and Department of Zoology faculty and stu-
dents, as well as a great many visiting entomologists
from around the world.
 The Swisher Memorial Tract and the Ordway Pre-
serve are adjacent pieces of land totalling some 9,300
acres. The land includes an array of habitats including
marsh, lakes, sandhills and mesic hammocks. Jointly
admiristered by the School of Forest Resources and
Conservation and the Florida State Museum, this area
supports several research activities centering on the
ecology of threatened species and the restoration of
the native longleaf pine growth in the sandhills.
Thesis and dissertation research projects consistent
with the aims of the preserve are actively encouraged.
 The herbarium of the University of Florida is also a
part of the Florida State Museum. It contains over
150,000 specimens of vascular plants and 170,000
specimens of nonvascular plants. Irr addition, the
herbarium operates a modern gas chromatograph-
ic/mass spectrometer laboratory for the study and
identification of.natural plant products.
 The research collections are under the care of
curators who encourage the scientific study of the
Museum's holdings. Materials are constantly being
added to the collections both through gifts from
friends and as a result of research activities of the
Museum staff. The archaeological and ethnological
collections are noteworthy. There are extensive study
collections of birds, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, am-
phibians, fish, invertebrate and vertebrate fossils, and
a bioacoustic archive consisting of original recordings
of animal sounds. Opportunities are provided for stu-
dents, staff, and visiting scientists to use the collec-
tions. Research and field work are presently spon-
sored in the archaeological, paleontological, and
zoological fields. Students interested in these special-
ties should make application to the appropriate teach-
ing department. Graduate assistantships are available
in the Museum in areas emphasized in its research
programs.


UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF FLORIDA
 The University of Florida is host to the State Univer-
sity System's scholarly publishing facility, University
Presses of Florida. The goals of the systemwide pub-
lishing program implemented by University Presses of
Florida are expressed in Board of Regents' policy:
 to publish books, monographs, journals, and
 other types of scholarly or creative works. The Press
 shall give special attention to works of distin-
 guished scholarship in academic areas of particular
 interest and usefulness to the citizens of Florida.
 The Press shall publish original works by state uni-
 versity faculty members, but it may also publish
 meritorious works originating elsewhere and may
 republish out-of-print works.
 Each university's faculty publishing committee is
independently responsible for selecting works for
publication through the facilities of University Presses
of Florida. At the University of Florida, the University