ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This work is indebted to the knowledge of many men. 

 It is, in part, a compilation of information furnished by 

 those who are foremost in their own trades. 



Space does not permit listing all of them, but I am par- 

 ticularly indebted to : 



Dr. Herrick and his Natural History of the American 

 Lobster 



Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries 



Dr. H. J. Thomas of the Scottish Marine Laboratory 



Maine Coast Fishennan 



Physiological Laboratory, Charlottenlund, Denmark 



Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 



William Benson, Portland, Maine 



Harry Georgeopoulous, East Coast Lobster Pound 



J. H. Patteson, Consolidated Lobster Company 



Albert E. Brooks, Brooks-Sprague Corporation 



Edward Myers, Saltwater Farm 



John Hughes, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fish- 

 eries, Oak Bluffs, Mass. 



U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service 



William C. Shroeder, Woods Hole Oceanographic In- 

 stitution 



Ernest W. Barnes, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries 

 & Game 



Harold Look, Jr., Rockland, Maine 



I am indebted to Robert Dow and Phillip Goggins of 

 Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, who have 

 reviewed this work, advised on its material, and corrected 

 errors of fact. 



T. M. Prudden 

 Hingham, Mass. 

 1962 



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