ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Preparation of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern 

 United States" is being coordinated by the following Board: 



Coordinating Editor: 



Editorial Advisers: 



Melbourne R. Carriker, College of Marine 



Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, 



DE 19958. 

 Marie B. Abbott, 259 High Street, 



Coventry, Conn. 

 Arthur G. Humes, Boston University Marine 



Program, Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory, Woods Hole, Mass. 

 Wesley N. Tiffney, Professor Emeritus, 



Boston University, 226 Edge Hill Road, 



Sharon, Mass. 

 Ruth D. Turner, Museum of Comparative 



Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 



Mass. 

 Roland L. Wigley, National Marine Fisheries 



Service, Northeast Fisheries Center, 



NOAA, Woods Hold, Mass. 

 Robert T. Wilce, Department of Botany, 

 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 

 Mass. 



The Board established the format for the "Marine Flora and Fauna 

 of the Northeastern United States!' invites systematists to collaborate 

 in the preparation of manuals, reviews manuscripts, and advises the 

 Scientific Editor of the National Marine Fisheries Service. 



The authors acknowledge with sincere appreciation the helpful sug- 

 gestions and gifts of specimens received from several of their 

 colleagues during the course of compiling this key, chiefly Martin A. 

 Buzas, Stephen J. Culver, Robert L. Ellison, C. Wylie Poag, David B. 

 Scott, and Roland L. Wigley. The key was tried out by three student 

 workers who had had little or no experience in dealing with forams. 

 Their frustrations and difficulties with the key enabled the authors to 

 enlarge and improve it; the invaluable assistance of Merry 

 Cavanaugh, Angela Lanham, and Cathy McNair, all of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, is gratefully acknowledged. The careful work of 

 Ann Wallace of Chilmark, Mass., in doing the illustrations is also 

 appreciated. 



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