At the same time as announcing this 5.2 million inventory grant the Moore Foundation announced a $200 million commitment to an astronomy project. Obviously their priorities are wrong & it should have been the other way round. :^) It's very nice though that such a Foundation (I'd not previously come across them) is able to generously fund some interesting pure science. http://www.moore.org/newsitem.aspx?id#38 Geoff -- Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.co.nz> http://www.annelida.net/ http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncabb/