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NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORSTwo copies of the complete text of each article should be submitted. Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Papers published in the International Journal of Speleology may not be reprinted or published in translation without permission. Reproduction of illustrations requires similar permission.2 Papers should be written in English, French, German, Italian or Spanisch. Authors using a language not their own are urgently requested ta have their manuscripts checked for linguistic correctness before submission. All papers should finish (in addition) with an English summary, giving a synopsis of the paper with sufficient detailed information concerning the methods used and the results obtained.3 Papers should be typed in double spacing, on one side of the paper, quarto size, leaving top and left hand margin at least 2.5 em (one inch) wide.4 Papers should be headed by a title, the initials(s) and name(s) of author(s) and an exact description of the post held and business address of the author(s). Dates should be in the form "5 February 1959".Continuation see inside of back cover.Int. J. Speleol. 7(1975), pp. 303-326. This, together with an average 74 inch rainfall, has yielded an abundance of caves. Over 700 caves have been catalogued. Most of these occur in the White Limestone formation of Oligocene age, which reaches a thickness up 2,000 feet. The White Limestone is underlain by middle Eocene Yellow Limestone and is folded along an east-west axis. Fewer caves have been formed in Cretaceous limestone, gypsum deposits, sub recent raised coral rock, and post-Miocene limestone ( Figure 1). The Limestone plateau of central Jamaica is favoured for cave development because of its watershed which has a gentle gradient off the 1,500 to 3,000 feet high insoluableCentral
The Invertebrate Fauna of TropicalInlier. This metamorphic ridge separates the limestone plateau into two main watersheds and the water running north or south disappears in numerous sinkholes and closed valleys in the extremely porous White Limestone (Figure 2).The purposes of this paper are several: to bring together the scattered literature on the physical speleology of Jamaica; to bring together the little that has been published on Jamaican biospeleology; to give a general summary of the knowledge of the fauna resulting from my field work; and to make available descriptive data on the cave sites that have been biologically studied. A complete listing of the fauna of Jamaican caves and a synthesis of the ecology, evolution, and zoogeography of this fauna will be published in a much later paper, after the many necessary taxonomic studies are completed.
REVIEWThere have been many publications on Jamaican karst and hydrology. General' references on Jamaican caves, cave exploration, karst, and hydrology are those of Aley (1964), Ashcroft (1969), Read (1963), Smi...