UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Douglas McKay, Secretary

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, John L. Farley, Director

GULF OF MEXICO

ITS ORIGIN, WATERS, AND MARINE LIFE

Prepared by American scientists under the sponsorship of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior
Coordinated by Paul S. Galtsoff

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.

Price $3.25

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Anderson, William W., Chief, Gulf Fishery Investigations, Fish and Wildlife Service.

Banner, Albert H., Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Hawaii.

Bayer, Frederick M., Associate Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. S.
National Museum.

Behre, Ellinor H., Professor of Embryology, Louisiana State University.
Butler, Philip A., Fishery Research Biologist, Fish and Wildlife Service.

Chace, Fenner A., Jr., Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. S. National
Museum.

Chandler, Asa C., Professor of Biology, Rice Institute.

Chitwood, B. G., formerly Professor of Biology, Catholic University of America. Clark, Austin H., Associate, Department of Zoology, U. S. National Museum. Coe, Wesley R., Professor Emeritus, Yale University.

Conger, Paul S., Associate Curator in Charge Diatom Collection, U. S. National Museum.

Cooper, G. Arthur, Associate Curator, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany, U. S. National Museum.

Davis, Charles C., Assistant Professor of Biology, Cleveland College, Western Reserve University.

Deevey, Edward S., Jr., Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University.

Deichmann, Elisabeth, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College.

Galtsoff, Paul S., Fishery Research Biologist, Fish and Wildlife Service.

Graham, Herbert W., Chief, North Atlantic Fishery Investigations, Fish and Wildlife Service.

Gunter, Gordon, Acting Director, Institute of Marine Science, University of Texas.

Hartman, Olga, Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Hedgpeth, Joel W., Marine Biologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California.

Henry, Dora Priaulx, Oceanographic Laboratories, University of Washington. Hyman, Libbie H., American Museum of Natural History.

Lasker, Reuben, Research Assistant, Marine Laboratory, University of Miami. Leipper, Dale F., Head, Department of Oceanography, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.

Lindner, Milton J., Chief, Fishery Mission to Mexico, Foreign Service of the U. S. A.

Lowery, George H., Jr., Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University.

Lynch, S. A., Head, Department of Geology, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.

Manter, Harold W., Professor of Zoology, University of Nebraska.

Marmer, H. A., Late Assistant Chief, Division of Tides and Currents, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

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