Author's Note 



In connection with an investigation of salmonid 

 fishes assigned to me by the California Fish and 

 Game Commission I was impressed with the need for 

 a bibliography on the subject of fish parasites. 

 During periods when field studies were put aside I 

 was stationed at Stanford University, where 

 Dr. David Starr Jordan kindly encouraged me to 

 make use of his very extensive library on fishes. 

 It was thus that I undertook the preparation of 

 this bibliography, which is strictly a compilati 

 The work occupied available periods from 1920 

 through 1923. The citations extend from 330 B.C. 

 to late A.D. 1923, a period of 2,253 years. 



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