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Billingsgate Market, London, England; Mr. A. D. Hald, Norwegian 

 Chamber of Commerce, London, England; Mr. H. Koster, Ijmuiden, 

 Netherlands; Dr. David H. Davies, South African Association for Marine 

 Biological Research; Mr. R. T. Harrison, Veld & Vlei Magazine, Durban, 

 South Africa; Dr. Gilbert P. Whitley, The Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 Australia; Dr. Mamoru Oshiba, Himesi University of Technology, Hyogo- 

 Ken, Japan. 



We also wish to express our appreciation to the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology of Harvard University for permission to reproduce 

 Dr. Samuel Carman's illustrations from The Plagiostoma; to Dr. Henry 

 B. Bigelow for permission to reproduce illustrations from Fishes of the 

 Wester?! North Atlantic, Memoir, Sears Foundation for Marine Re- 

 search; to Dr. Gilbert P. Whitley for permission to reproduce material 

 and illustrations from The Fishes of Australia; to the Johannesburg 

 (South Africa) Star; to the Marine Laboratory of the University of 

 Miami; to the staff of the Australian News and Information Bureau in 

 New York; to the New York Times for the use of its files; to the staffs 

 of the American Museum of Natural History library, and the U.N. In- 

 formation Service and Guild Hall hbraries of London; to Miss Betsey 

 Land Quentin, niece of the late Dr. Gudger, who provided the authors 

 with a collection of his writings which appeared in journals throughout 

 the world. 



We are indebted to the many citizens of Matawan, New Jersey, in- 

 cluding Miss Mabel Brown of the Matawan Journal, Mr. Rensselaer L. 

 Cartan, Mr. Arthur Smith, Mr. John N. Smith, and Mr. Arthur S. Van 

 Buskirk, without whose aid in reconstructing events the first chapter of this 

 book could not have been written. Thanks to R. J. Faulkingham, M.D., 

 of De Land, Florida, we were also able to clarify facts on the Matawan 

 attacks which had been lost for more than half a century. 



We also thank Mr. Craig Phillips, previously Curator of the Seaquar- 

 ium in Miami, Florida, and presently attached to the Commercial Fish- 

 eries Division of the Department of the Interior, of the Federal Govern- 

 ment, in charge of the technical planning of our new National Aquarium- 

 to-be. Mr. Phillips read through the entire manuscript with more than just 

 a professionally critical eye. He is a trained ichthyologist and has a long 

 and close experience with the Selachians in particular, and he made a 

 large number of more than just worthwhile suggestions and emendations 

 to the work. To him we are most extremely indebted. 



Mr. Sterling Lanier made an extraordinary contribution, mostly but 

 not exclusively to the technical side of the work. 



The publishers have given the patience and the technical skill of the 

 editors and various departments at Chilton Books. 



We have drawn upon many periodicals, to which individual citations 



