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Excerpt from The Opalinid Ciliate Infusorians
Since the summer of 1908 the author has been collecting and Ob serving living specimens of American and West Indian Opalinidae and preserved material from all parts of the world. During this period he has been much indebted to many persons for assistance and courtesies in connection with these studies. The Marine Biological Station at Naples preserved and sent intestines of the Mediterranean fish Box boom, containing Protoopalina saturnalis In fine condition. Prof. E. A. Andrews, Of Johns Hopkins University, sent me im portant material (adult Bufo marinus and its tadpoles, from Jamaica, and tadpoles from an undetermined Anuran from Bromelia leaf cups in Jamaica). H. H. And C. S. Brimley, of Raleigh, North caroa lina, collected for me Anura and Urodela. Dr. H. C. Fortner, of the University of Tennessee, sent me Opalinas from Michigan. Prof. E. L. Mark, director Of the Bermuda Biological Laboratory, has obtained for me, through his pupil, Mr. C. S. Simkins, important data as to the breeding habits of Bufo marinus in Bermuda, and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger has repeatedly given me assistance in matters Of taxonomy of the Amphibia, reviewing my list of names of the forms studied, bringing the nomenclature into harmony with that adopted at the United States National Museum. He has also given considerable zoogeographic data. Professor Hegner kindly sent me an excellent slide Of a form collected by Dr. C. E. Simon, which, by permission, I am describing under the tentative name Opalina [zaruarum]. With this slide was sent a manuscript copy of a paper (hegner and hsiang-fong Wu, 1921) upon this Opalina. I wish very cordially to thank these authors and Doctor Simon. Several institutions have generously extended to me their hos pitality during periods of work ranging from two weeks to eight months. For this kindness I wish to express my most cordial thanks to the Scripps Institution of Biology and its director, Prof. William E. Ritter; to the University of California and the director Of its zoological department, Prof. C. A. Kofoid; to the University Of Washington, and to Prof. Trevor Kincaid, director of the Puget Sound Biological Laboratory; to the authorities of the United States National Museum, and especially to Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of vertebrates in this museum; and to Johns Hopkins University and members Of the faculty of its department of zoology, Profs. H. S. Jennings, E. A. Andrews, and S. O. Mast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
