INTRODUCTION 



By Leonard P. Schultz 



This is the third and final volume of U.S. National Museum Bulletin 

 202, "Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands." The first 

 volume was published on December 15, 1953, and the second on May 

 11, 1960. 



A list of fish collecting stations, maps, and other information perti- 

 nent to the use of volume 3 were published in volume 1. 



The manuscripts for volumes 2 and 3 were completed in 1954, 

 except for the family Gobiidae, including its various subfamilies of 

 eleotriids and gobiids. These are under study b}^ Dr. Ernest A. Lach- 

 ner, who will report on them in a separate publication. 



