Table 3.  Visitors to the Fish Collection, 1978 to September 2002.1

 

Year                                                                              Number

1978

  3

1979

23

1980

13

1981

  8

1982

12

1983

25

1984

13

1985

13

1986

19

1987

11

1988

  6

1989

14

1990

86

1991

54

1992

27

1993

40

1994

25

1995

  8

1996

  9

1997

26

1998 (January-April)

  4

2001 (September-December)

 11

2002 (January-September)

 38

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1   Data for 1978-1987 are from Pietsch, T. W. (1987), see note 67.  Data for 1988 to September 2002 were taken from the visitor’s logbook of the Fish Collection.  Visitors were not record from April 1998 to September 2001.  The marked increase in visitors beginning in 1990 was due to the opening of the new Collection facility.  It also meant that visiting scientists had a clean, organized, and comfortable place to work and that the Collection was easily accessible.  The large number of visitors in 1997 was due to the presence of the American Society of Ichthyologist and Herpetologist annual meeting on the UW campus in that year.  The relative diligence of the Collections Manager in asking visitors to “log in" is also a significant factor.