acknowledge the assistance of Miss Helen Forsburg, Senior 
Librarian of the School of Geology, who has taken particular 
pats to keep me posted on new acquisitions to our library 
that dealt with ostracoda. 
In the preparation of this Handbook I have gratefully 
made use of the 6 bibliographies of Paleozoic crustacea 
compiled by Vogdes 1889, 1890, 1893, 1895, 1917, 1925; the 
monumental compilation of recent ostracoda by G. W. Muller 
1912, in Das Tierreich; Bassler and Kellettts 193) Biblio- 
graphic Index of Paleozoic Ostracoda; Branson's 1948 
Bibliographic Index of Permian Invertebrates; the Bibliography 
of Paleontology and Stratigraphy compiled by Anna Samarodova 
in PROBLEMS OF PALEONTOLOGY, vols.I-V, Moscow 1935-1939, 
Agnewts 1942, 1944 Bibliographic Index of new genera and 
families of Paleozoic Ostracoda since 1934; Levinson'ts 1953 
Bibliography and Index to New Genera of Ostracoda 1950-1952; 
the Zoological Record, the Zentralblatt fur Mineralogie, 
Geologie, und Paleontologie, as well as the bibliographies 
accompanying each of the articles in my personal library. 
Moreover I have checked the generic and subgeneric names 
against the list given by Neavets 1939-1950 NOMENCLATOR 
ZOOLOGICUS for verification of the homonyms listed. There 
are probably more homonyms to be discovered, as a surprising- 
ly large number of ostracod generic and subgeneric names are 
not listed in Neave. 
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