ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Preparation of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the 

 Northeastern United States" is being coordinated by 

 the following Board : 



Coordinator: Melbourne R. Carriker, Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 



Advisers: Marie B. Abbott, Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory. 



Arthur G. Humes, Boston University Ma- 

 rine Program, Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory. 



Wesley N. Tiffney, Department of Biology, 

 Boston University, Boston, Mass. 



Ruth D. Turner, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Roland L. Wigley, National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service, Biological Laboratory, 



Woods Hole, Mass. 

 Robert T. Wilce, Department of Botany, 

 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, National Marine Fisheries Service. 



The illustrations were drawn by Susan P. Heller of 

 the Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological 

 Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. Eva S. Montiero typed 

 the manuscript. Preparation of the manual was sup- 

 ported in part by Grant GB-24,832 from the National 

 Science Foundation and by a grant from the Whitehall 

 Foundation to the Systematics-Ecology Program. 



COORDINATOR'S COMMENTS 



Publication of the "Marine Flora and Fauna of the 

 Northeastern United States" is most timely in view of 

 the growing universal emphasis on environmental work 

 and the urgent need for more precise and complete ident- 

 ification 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 biological infor- 

 mation stored in libraries, obviate duplication of re- 

 search already done, and make possible prediction of 

 attributes of organisms that have been inadequately 

 studied. 



Dr. McCloskey commenced his study of the systematics 

 of the Pycnogonida in 1964. Preliminary drafts of this 

 manual were prepared in the spring and summer of 1971 

 during a portion of Dr. McCloskey's tenure in the Syste- 

 matics-Ecology Program as a Postdoctoral Fellow spon- 

 sored by the Whitehall Foundation. He joined the staff 

 of the Department of Biology, Walla Walla College, Col- 

 lege Place, Washington, in the fall of 1971. 



Manuals are available for purchase from the Superin- 

 tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. 

 Washington, D.C. 20402. The manuals so far published 

 in the series and their cost per copy are listed below. 



COOK, DAVID G., and RALPH O. BRINKHURST, Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern 



United States. Annelida : Oligochaeta $0.35 



BORROR, ARTHUR C. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Protozoa: 



Ciliophora 0.65 



MOUL, EDWIN T. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. Higher plants of 



the marine fringe 0.65 



McCLOSKEY, LAWRENCE R. Marine flora and fauna of the Northeastern United States. 



Pycnogonida 0.30 



GPO 987-535 



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