A-58, 



The following people at the Smithsonian Institution were 

 particularly helpful in taxonomic identifications and geo- 

 graphic ranges of the animals occurring in our study area: 

 Frederick Bayer for alcyonarians; Steve Cairns for sclerac- 

 tinians; Maureen Downey for asteroids; Dave Pawson for 

 echinoderms and general fauna. Pamela Polloni and Richard 

 Haedrich of WHOI were exceedingly helpful in general species 

 identification and in providing their unpublished results of 

 trawl collections on the New England continental slope. 



Special thanks are extended to Patricia R. Gibson, 

 Anneli Woodruffe, and Maryanne Lawrence for technical assis- 

 tance in all aspects of this work. We would also like to 

 thank John Farre and Steven Streeter for their able assis- 

 tance with the computer analysis. 



