Dear Colleagues, A preprint, whose abstract follows, is available in compressed .dvi form (for DOS and for UNIX) from: http://www.emu.edu.tr/academic/facartsc/mathsdep/staffpic/jfunk.htm or if you are browsing the web, click on academics, teaching staff, Mathematics, Jonathon Funk, additional information, after you have reached the EMU homepage http://www.emu.edu.tr If you would like a copy, but are unable to retrieve the preprint, please don't hestitate to contact me, as I would be happy to send you the .dvi file personally. funk@mozart.emu.edu.tr ---------------------------------------------------------------- ``On branched covers in topos theory'' Abstract: We present some new findings conerning branched covers in topos theory. Our discussion involves a particular subtopos of a given topos that can be described as the smallest subtopos closed under small coproducts in the including topos. We also have some new results concerning the general theory of KZ-doctrines, such as the the closure under composition of discrete fibrations for a KZ- doctrine (in the sense of Bunge/Funk, ``On a bicomma object condition for KZ-doctrines''). Regards, Jonathon Funk Jonathon Funk Department of Mathematics Eastern Mediterranean University Gazimagusa Turkish Republic of North Cyprus via Mersin 10, Turkey tel: (90) 392 366 6588, Ext: 1227, 1228, 1138 fax: (90) 392 366 1604