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from 1991 to mid 1993 and has been supportive of the current co-leaders throughout. Drs. Tiiu MÄRSS (Estonia), WANG Nian-zhong and

W ANG Shi-tao (China) also contributed to the initial proposal and carried out important work as national leaders. We thank especially the

IGCP and IUGS secretariats, especially Drs. Endré D UDICH and Vladislav BABUSKA , and national IGCP committees for all their support -

financial and otherwise. Numerous other organisations and individuals have assisted the project, especially the hosts to our 5 major meetings,

M. Marius A RSENAULT , Directeur du Parc de Miguasha and the Québec Government (1991); Professor Michael H OUSE , Chairman of the

Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS; our main co-operative partner), and the committee of ISDSEOMR, Guilin, China (1992);

Professor Otto H. W ALLISER and the staff of Göttingen University IMGP (1993); in addition, the late Herman JAEGER for his initial support

and invitation for the Gross Symposium, and Professor Hans-Peter SCHULTZEfor his support and help following the death of Dr. J AEGER ,

and providing liaison with the University of Berlin and Walter G ROSS's family (1993); Dr. A.Yu. R OZANOV, Dr. and Mrs. Oleg L EBEDEV

and the staffs of the Paleontological Institute, Moscow, and Ukhta Geological Exploration Institute (1994); and the Directeur and staffs of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and the University of Lille, Laboratoire Pal.3(1995). In addition, our national and geological

system leaders have provided continuing and concerted support during the life of IGCP 328; their names and contributions are outlined in the

newsletter, Ichthyolith Issuesnumbers 6-17. We thank Professor Dr. Hans-Peter S CHULTZE for his useful comments on an earlier draft of our

contribution, as well as C. D ERYCKE(Villeneuve d'Ascq), C. G IRARD (Villeurbanne) and T. MÄRSS (Tallinn) for helpful information while

writing this paper. Mrs. R. N ETTER (Villeneuve d'Ascq) processed figures 2 and 3.

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Fig. 1 - Histogram of numbers of publications of IGCP 328.