Vi PREFACE 



United States, McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1933; and Marine Algae of the 

 Monterey Peninsula, California, Stanford University Press, 1943. 



No single reference volume was found to be as comprehensive for animal names as 

 the Standardized Plant Names and the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture are for 

 plants, although the Cambridge Natural History Series, from Volume I, Protozoa 

 and Echiyioderms, to Volume X, Mammals, Macmillan, New York, 1923-1936, was 

 found to be very useful. For the names of fishes, the best information was obtained 

 from: A List of Common and Scientific Names of the Better-Knoum. Fishes of the 

 United States and Canada, Transactions of American Fisheries Society, 75, Special 

 Publication No. 1, 355-397, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1948; the monograph by D. S 

 Jordan and B. W. Evermann entitled A Checklist of the Fishes and Fish-like Verte- 

 brates of North and Middle America, Government Printing Office, Washington, 

 D. C., 1896; and the book, in four parts, by the same authors. The Fishes of North 

 and Middle America; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Species of Fish-like Vertebrates 

 Found in the Waters of North America, North of the Isthmus of Panama, Bulletin of 

 the United States National Museum, No. 47, Govei-nment Pi-inting Office, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., 1896-1900. 



Microorganisms were checked in D. H. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bac- 

 teriology, sixth edition, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1948, and in W. A. N. 

 Borland's Medical Dictionary, twentieth edition, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 

 1944. 



Although much of the information given here has been obtained from 

 recent monographs and reviews, the original references cited in the reviews 

 have been consulted whenever possible. When the original article was not 

 available, the source of the secondary citation has likewise been appended 

 to the original reference. 



Acknowledgment should be made to Professor L. Zechmeister of the 

 California Institute of Technology, whose brilliant scientific and editorial 

 career has been a continued source of stimulation to the present author over 

 recent years. 



The author is aware of the extremely ^'aluable assistance of Mrs. Marga- 

 ret Ritter, who has served as an editorial assistant throughout the prepara- 

 tion of the manuscript, and who has been able to locate and bring to the 

 attention of the author much of the material cited. He would also like to 

 acknowledge the excellent work on the figures and formulas carried out by 

 Mrs. Mildred Greenberg and Mr. Howard Skypeck. Finally, mention 

 should be made of the skill and accuracy of Mrs. ]\Iarie Visser in the 

 preparation of the manuscript for the publisher. 



Pasadena, California Harry J. Deuel, Jr. 



June 4, 1951 



