CREASER and CLIFFORD: LIFE HISTORY STUDIES OF SANDWORM 



photographic services, and Vicki Averill for 

 typing. 



This research was conducted by the Maine 

 Department of Marine Resources Research Lab- 

 oratory, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in co- 

 operation with the United States Department of 

 Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 and was financed under Public Law 88-309, 

 Project 3-16-R. 



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