ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Preparation of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of Ilie Northeast- 

 ern United States"" is being coordinated hy the following Board: 



Coordinator; Melbourne R. Carriker. Marine Biological 

 Laboratory. Woods Hole, Mass. (Address after 

 September I. 1973: College of Marine Studies, 

 Field Station. University of Delaware, Lewes, 

 Delaware 19958.) 



Wesley N.Tiffney. Department of Biology, Boston 

 University, Boston, Mass. 



Ruth D. Turner, Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Roland L. Wigley, National Marine Fisheries Ser- 

 vice. Biological Laboratory. Woods Hole. Mass. 



Robert T. Wilce. Department of Botany. Univer- 

 sity of Massachusetts. Amherst. Mass. 



Advisers: Marie B. Abbott, Marine Biological Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 

 Arthur G. Humes. Boston University Marine Pro- 

 gram. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, 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 Fish- 

 eries Service. 



COORDINATOR'S COMMENTS 



Publication of the ""Marine Flora and Fauna of the North- 

 eastern United States"" is most timely in view of the growing 

 universal emphasis on environmental work and the urgent 

 need for more precise and complete identification of coastal 

 organisms than has been available. It is mandatory, wherever 

 possible, that organisms be identified accurately to species. 

 Accurate scientific names unlock the great quantities of biolog- 

 ical information stored in libraries, obviate duplication of re- 

 search already done, and make possible prediction of attri- 

 butes of organisms that have been inadequately studied. 



Raymond B. Manning began his study of the Stomatopoda 

 of the Western North .'Atlantic in 1957 as a graduate student at 

 the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami. His 



studies on the American species were subsequently expanded 

 to include investigations on all of the known species, the ma- 

 jority of which live in the Indo-West Pacific region. His 

 studies have resulted in more than 50 papers on the systema- 

 tics of stomatopods. including three reviews of classification at 

 the generic level, and a monographic revision of the western 

 Atlantic species which was published in 1969. After complet- 

 ing his graduate studies at the University of Miami. Manning 

 joined the staff of the National Museum of Natural History. 

 Smithsonian Institution, in 1963. 



Manuals are available for purchase from the Superintendent 

 of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Oftjce. Washington. 

 D.C. 20402. The manuals so far published in the series are 

 listed below. 



COOK. DAVID G.. and RALPH O. BRINKHURST. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern 



United States. Annelida: Oligochaeta 

 BORROR. ARTHUR C. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Protozoa: Cilio- 



phora 

 MOUL, EDWIN T. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Higher Plants of 



the Marine Fringe 

 McCLOSKEY. LAWRENCE R. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Pycnogonida 

 MANNING, RAYMOND B. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Crustacea: 



Stomatopoda 



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