Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Roberto de Propris for kindly providing the software to calculate the predicted galaxy n(z) distributions and we are grateful of the staff of the UKST and AAO for their assistance in the observations. This research was partially supported by the cooperative programme ECOS/ CONICYT C96U04 and HC acknowledges support from a Presidential Chair in Science. MJD acknowledges receipt of an AFCOP travel grant and a French Embassy Fellowship in support of visits to Paris Observatory where some of this work was carried out.

This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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