ere A oe ee ae ree ae ARme eeta cee cee tectentttenetaSt allan i neem ae 66 tions were made by manyindividuals in manydepartments, including Medical, Instrumentation and Health Physics, Photography and Graphic Arts, the Shipping Section and others. We are grateful to the following people for their support and advice: Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, Director; Dr. J.B.H. Kuper, Chairman of the Instrumentation and Health Physics Department; Dr. V.P. Bond, Chairmanof the Medical Department, and others in his Department, including Drs. D.D. Van Slyke, E.P. Cronkite, and S. Cohn, Messrs. A. Finn, G. Jackson, and W. J. Walsh, and the nursing staff of the Medical Research Center. In regard to advice and consultation on the thyroid pathology in the Marshallese, we are indebted to Drs. S. Warren and W.A. Meissner of the New England Deaconess Hospital; Dr. J.B. Stanbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. B.P. Colcock, Lahey Clinic; Dr. E.D. Henley, University of Washington; Dr. G.H. 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