""Table of Contents""; ""0. Introduction""; ""Notation""; ""1. Riemann Surfaces with Nodes and Regular b�Groups""; ""2. The Space M[sub(g)]""; ""3. Convergence of Green's Functions (part one)""; ""4. Collars and Nodal Neighborhoods""; ""5. An Apriori Bound for Prime Geodesics""; ""6. Convergence of Green's Functions (part two)""; ""7. Continuity Properties of Small Eigenvalues""; ""8. Asymptotic Properties of the Selberg Zeta Function""; ""9. An Analog of Weyl 's Law""; ""References""