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River, Georgia portions of tlie (northern) Withlacoochee River and the 

 Flint River, St. Johns River basin, and southern Florida. 



We encourage the collections of specimens of both macro- and 

 micro-invertebrates that represent new records; specimens should be 

 preserved in alcohol (70% ethanol) at the time of collection. All specimens 

 should be donated to appropriate collections where they can be properly 

 studied and curated. If maintained alive, specimens need to be brought 

 to a specialist immediately, for upon death these fragile organisms 

 decay rapidly and are useless. . ^, 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. —Since this project spans 25 years, it 

 is difficult to list everyone who has contributed information to the data 

 base. However, we particularly are indebted to David S. Lee (DSL), 

 who introduced Richard Franz (RF) to Florida caves in the late 1960s, 

 the many cavers and cave divers who graciously contributed specimens 

 and observations, and especially the land owners who have allowed 

 access to their caves over the years. We wish to thank Thomas E. 

 Bowman (TB), Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (HHH), Jerry Lewis (JL), John R. 

 Holsinger (JRH), Arnold Norden (AN), and Fred G. Thompson (FGT) 

 for aid in identification of crustacean and molluscan materials; Jim 

 Stevenson (Florida Department of Natural Resources) and Joe Fredericks 

 (former park manager at Florida Caverns State Park) who allowed Lee 

 and Franz to work in caves of Florida Caverns and Falling Waters state 

 parks in the late 1960s; Bill and Sandy Fehring, Steve Gerrard, Paul 

 Heinerth (PH), Brian Houha (BH), the late Bill Hurst (BHT), David S. 

 Lee (DSL), A. Terry Leitheuser (ATL), Buford Pruitt (BP), Wes Skiles 

 (WS), Paul Smith (PS), and Roger Werner who have continued to 

 contribute important specimens through the years often from difficult 

 sites; the Florida Speleological Society (FSS) and Al Krause (AL) for 

 sharing information in their files; Walter Auffenberg, Peter Drummond, 

 Horton H. Hobbs Jr., David S. Lee, Barry Mansell, Bill and Shirley 

 Oldacre, Joseph M. Pylka, Richard D. Warren, and H. K. Wallace for 

 help in reconstructing the history of biospeleology in Florida; Thomas 

 C. Barr, Jr., C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr., Howard Frank, Horton H. Hobbs, 

 Jr., Al and Martha Krause, and David S. Lee who carefully reviewed 

 parts or all of the manuscript; and the staff of the Florida Museum of 

 Natural History for their continued support of this project. The following 

 museum collections include important specimens from Florida caves: 

 British Museum of Natural History (BMNH); Florida Department of 

 Natural Resources (FSBC=FDNR); Florida Museum of Natural History 

 (UF); National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) 

 (USNM); North Carolina State Museum of Natural Science (NCSM); 



