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sampling with seines. The distribution of 

 the Forbes & Richardson and the Thomp- 

 son & Hunt collecting stations is depicted 

 in fig. 1. 



1959 Survey Procedure 



The intention, when our survey was be- 

 ing planned, was to duplicate the seining 



procedures employed by Thompson Si, 

 Hunt and in addition to extend the sam- 

 pling at each station by using more effi- 

 cient, recently developed methods that 

 would lead to quantitative samples of 

 greater reliability. We soon realized, 

 however, that it would be virtually im- 

 possible to duplicate their seining proce- 



Fig. 1. — Distribution of the Forbes & Richardson (inverted solid triangles) and of the 

 Thompson & Hunt (open circles) collecting stations in Champaign County. The hatched area 

 near the center of the map represents Champaign-Urbana. 



