Excerpt from Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and Myriopoda Exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)
This Guide deals with the specimens which are exhibited in the Southern half of the "Insect Gallery." The great group Arthropoda, or animals with jointed legs and (usually) a hard exoskeleton, are here considered, with the exception of the Insects, which are described in a separate Guide. The present work is thus concerned with the Crustacea, mainly aquatic in habit, and represented by familiar animals such as Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs; with the Arachnida, the Scorpions, Spiders, Ticks and their allies; with the Onychophora, constituted by the singular animal known as Peripatus; and with the so-called Myriopoda, including the Millipedes and Centipedes.
The section on the Crustacea is written by Dr. W. T. Caiman, that on the Arachnida and Myriopoda by Mr. A. S. Hirst, and the portions dealing respectively with the Onychophora and with the Pentastomida (the latter regarded as degenerate Arachnida) by Mr. F.Jeffrey Bell.
Mr. R. I. Pocock, who was formerly in charge of the Arachnida and Myriopoda, and whose responsibility then included the arrangement of many of the specimens now exhibited, has been kind enough to read the proof-sheets dealing with those groups.
The thanks of the Museum are due to Messrs. A. and C.Black for their permission to use certain blocks from Part vii (Dr. Caiman's volume on Crustacea) of the "Treatise on Zoology," edited by Sir Bay Lankester, k.c.b., f.r.s., who has also given his sanction to their use in this Guide-Book. Figs.10, 11, 13, 15, 18-22, 26, 27, 30 are derived from this source.
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