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Acknowledgements FIRST and foremost I should like to thank Professor G. A. Kerkut for suggesting I write this monograph and for reading the manuscript. My sincere thanks are also due to Profes- sor V. Neuhoff, not only for writing the Preface and reading the manuscript, but also for his support and encouragement throughout. Drs. H. H. Althaus, W. Dames, H. Haljamáe, R. Rüchel and D. Wolfrum must be gratefully mentioned because of their many helpful comments, suggestions and advice on various sections of the book, and thanks also to Dr. T. W. Waehneldt for photographing a number of specimens, and to Herr H. Ropte for enthusiastically and expertly producing the photographs and diagrams. Further I wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance of other members of the neuro- chemical group, in particular Fráulein E. Priggemeier, and the secretarial aid of Frau I. von Bischoffshausen and Frau B. Rosetz. Last, but by no means least, I thank my wife Jane, not only for inspiring me to write the monograph, but also for spending many hours typing and proofreading in the different stages of development. xiii