it will encourage them to try to learn something 

 more of the strange creatures that live between the 

 tides or beneath the waters of the ocean. 



No pretense is made at a complete catalogue of 

 the invertebrate animals of the East Coast, or even 

 those of the State of New Jersey. An attempt has 

 been made, however, to discuss and illustrate all of 

 the common and many of the rarer species that 

 would be found by the casual collector along the 

 coast of New Jersey and its neighboring states. 

 While many of the records are specifically from New 

 Jersey, the same animals would in most cases be 

 found in similar situations between Cape Cod and 

 Cape Hatteras. Thus it is hoped that the book also 

 will serve as a guide to the study of the sea animals 

 found along the seashore between Southern New 

 England and the Carolinas. 



The author began collecting and studying the 

 sea animals of the New Jersey coast in 1927 while a 

 student at the University of Pennsylvania, and for a 

 while was associated with Professor A. E. Parr in a 

 survey of this coast conducted by the United States 

 Bureaus of Fisheries. 



The identifications of many of the species have 

 been verified by specialists in the respective branch- 

 es of zoology. In addition to checking the identi- 

 fication, certain of these specialists have critically 

 read the manuscript of the chapters or sections on 

 the particular group of animals in which they are 

 most interested. For such splendid cooperation the 

 author is indebted to the following :- 

 Dr. 0. E. Nelsen, University of Pennsylvania 



(Coelenterata) 

 Mr. A. H. Clark, United States National Museum 



(Echinoderms) 

 Dr. P. S. Osburu, Ohio Slate University (Bryozoa) 



