ECOLOGICAL STUDIES ON TILE SYMBIOSIS OF TER ITOMYCES ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It is a pleasure to thank my supervisors Dr. T. G. Wood and
Dr. M. J. Swift for their assistance and advice during the course of
this project.
I am grateful to N. E. R. C. for awarding me a grant, C. 0, P. R (London)
for providing funds to carry out work in Nigeria and the Director of
the institute of Agricultural Research and the Officer-in-Charge, Mokwat
for providing facilities at the field-station at Mokwa.
I am indebted to Dr. R. A. Johnson for help and advice, and for his
hospitality in Nigeria. Ibr valuable discussions and assistance I would
like to thank Robert Lamb, Lynne Boddy and Lesley Falconer.
Technical assistance was gratefully received from Beryl Wilson and
Fred Laws at Queen Mary College# and from the members of the Termite Team
at Mokwa, without whose assistance the field work would not have been
possible. Thanks go to Christopher Short for some of the photographs.
Finally I would like to express my gratitude to my family and friendst
including many people mentioned above, and especially Nicholette Dunlop
and Denise Gibbons for the very important encouragement they have given me-
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