PREFACE 



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pronounce intelligently and with ease and accu- 

 racy, the names and terms they use. 



Gardeners and horticulturists, specialists in ani- 

 mal husbandry, foresters, naturalists, and stu- 

 dents of the biological sciences will often need to 

 consult the Guide. Teachers, especially, will wel- 

 come this aid as they prepare to give their lectures 

 or conduct recitations. All will find it to be a most 

 profitable and interesting spare-time pleasure 

 (although at times embarrassing) to run through 

 the lists of familiar generic and specific names as 

 well as oft-used technical terms and underline the 

 great number of mispronunciations they have been 

 habitually making. 



In preparing the long list of words (there are 

 more than 9000), a guide to whose pronunciation 

 is indicated, the author tried particularly to in- 

 clude only those most likely to cause difficulty. 

 Thus many commonly used terms and generic 

 names of obvious sound and accentuation have 

 been omitted. This has made it possible to keep the 

 book down to a size easy to handle, and to render 

 it valuable as a constant desk or brief-case com- 

 panion. 



The author realizes that although he has spared 

 no effort to here present a thoroughly reliable 

 work, there still must be errors which have slipped 

 in. Constructive criticisms and corrections are ac- 

 cordingly invited for the purpose of helping to at- 

 tain to a more uniform and correct standard of 

 pronunciation in future editions of the Handbook. 



