PREFACE 



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that has come to our attention since February 1, 

 1960, have we analyzed for inclusion in this work. 

 On the other hand, we have cited without analysis 

 some papers that have appeared since that time. 

 The closing date does not apply to entries in Sec- 

 tions 7 and 8, which we have continually revised 

 to include pertinent recent publications. 



May we request that any reader who finds 

 errors or omissions in this volume bring them 

 to our attention? Should usage justify such ac- 

 tion, we may eventually assemble and publish 

 any data appearing in new studies or in those 

 inadvertently omitted from the present work. 



Persons to whom we owe a debt of gratitude are 

 many. In the first place, we thank Dr. William R. 

 Harvey, Dr. Melvin V. Simpson, and Dr. Heinrich 

 Waelsch, all of whom offered valuable advice re- 

 garding the content and format of certain entries. 



For verifying scientific names and making 

 suggestions regarding generally accepted com- 

 mon names, we thank Dr. Elisabeth Deichmann, 

 Dr. William K. Emerson, Dr. G. E. Gates, Dr. 

 Willard D. Hartman, Dr. Libbie H. Hyman, Mr. 

 Morris K. Jacobson, and Mr. John C. Pallister. 

 Valid names of Crustacea came from the sys- 

 tematic index included in Waterman (1960). Ac- 

 cording to the preface, Dr. Fenner A. Chace, 

 Jr., acted as referee on all taxonomic citations 

 pertaining to the Crustacea. Hence, for their 

 indirect assistance, we are grateful to Dr. 

 Chace and Dr. Waterman. 



For suggesting or verifying definitions of 

 terms included within the glossary we thank Dr. 

 H. E. Coomans, Dr. Emerson, Dr. Henry Har- 

 bury. Dr. Hyman, Dr. Mary Ellen Jones, Dr. 

 Sam Katz, Dr. Sasha Malamed, Dr. Berta 

 Scharrer, and Dr. Simpson. 



For permitting inclusion of unpublished mate- 

 rial, we thank Dr. Rose Robyns Coelho and Dr. 

 Harvey. The unpublished data submitted by Dr. 

 Harvey appear in his thesis for the Ph.D. de- 

 gree, Harvard University. 



For permission to quote a passage from Cancer 

 Research, we thank the University of Chicago. 



For her patient, experienced editorial advice 

 and guidance, we express appreciation to Miss 

 Ruth Tyler, Editor of Scientific F>ublications of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. With- 



out her, this volume would never have reached 

 its final stages. 



For giving freely of their time and still re- 

 taining their patience despite the trying nature 

 of their tasks, we thank Miss Ana Uscocovich, 

 Mrs. Phyllis Fish, and Miss Joan Ruff, typists. 

 For considerable assistance in the initial stages 

 of the work, when references had to be tracked 

 down and unwanted ones eliminated, we acknowl- 

 eged particularly the help of Mrs. Patricia 

 Cannon Sprague. For other assistance of vari- 

 ous sorts during the course of compilation, we 

 are grateful to Mrs. Jane Rouillion Boyer, 

 Mr. William F. Mussig, Mr. Frederick V. Weir, 

 and Mrs. Mary Weitzman. For their competent 

 help in the tedious task of preparing the indexes, 

 we thank Mr. Arnold Ross and Miss Susan E. 

 Bliss. 



We have a special word of thanks for mem- 

 bers of the staff of the Library of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, who furthered in 

 no small way the progress of our work. 



We also express our gratitude to Dr. Charles 

 M. Breder, Jr., and to members of the Publica- 

 tions Committee of the Council of the Scientific 

 Staff of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory for making possible the preparation and 

 printing of this volume. 



Lastly, we gratefully acknowledge the sup- 

 port of the National Science Foundation through 

 grants (NSF G-4006 and NSF G-11254) to one 

 of us (D.E.B.), and also the support of both the 

 National Institute of Neurological Diseases and 

 Blindness and the National Cancer Institute of 

 the United States Public Health Service through 

 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to 

 the other (D.M.S.) while she was at Radcliffe 

 College, Brandeis University, and Yale Uni- 

 versity. 



We have tried to produce an accurate refer- 

 ence on tissue respiration in invertebrates. 

 For all errors that remain, we accept full re- 

 sponsibility. 



DOROTHY E. BLISS 

 DOROTHY M. SKINNER 



December 15, 1961 



