We study infima of families of topologies on the hyperspace of a metri
zable space. We prove that Kuratowski convergence is the infimum, in t
he lattice of convergences, of all Wijsman topologies and that the coc
ompact topology on a metric space which is complete for a metric d is
the infimum of the upper Wijsman topologies arising from metrics that
are uniformly equivalent to d.