mich too voluminous to publish ^n extenso . The data from a number 

 of stations along the Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and 

 Texas Coast have previously been presented in Whitehouse euid Brown 

 (1956), The origiaal data for these stations is on file with the 

 U, 3. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D, C. 



For reference purposes as to locations, periods of observation, 

 source and page herein, the following list of locations is given in 

 alphabetical order. The tables of data are arranged in geographical 

 order, so far as possible from North to South along the Itlantic 

 Coast and East to West along the Gulf Coast. The U3C&GS locations 

 are listed, but are not included in the tabulations. The locations 

 of these observations are indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. 



Most of the USC&GS stations are on a continuing basis and pre- 

 sumably the monthly means will be published from time to time. Two 

 additional USC&GS stations are also presently operating. Buzzards 

 Bay (Cape Cod Canal), Mass, and Sagamore (Cape Cod Canal), Mass, 



Those lightships marked "ith an asterisk (*) are currently 

 collecting bath^-thermograms and surface water samples daily and 

 bottom water samples weekly. Buzzards Bay Lightship, Mass. is also 

 collecting daily surface water temperatures and surface water samples, 

 The data for the year 1956 will be published in extenso in a forth- 

 coming number of the Special Scientific Reports - Fisheries, 



The patient assistance of Florence Glazer, C. Godfrey Day, Joan 

 Brigham and Nadine Atheam is gratefully acknowledged. 



Note: If the reader is aware of other data which would mater- 

 ially add to this compendium, he is urged to make this information 

 known to the author. It could be included in forthcoming reports. 



