ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF W. DE HAAN'S VOLUME ON THE CRUSTACEA OF P. F. VON SIEBOLD'S "FAUNA JAPONICA"
- 1 December 1953
- journal article
- Published by Edinburgh University Press in Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
- Vol. 3 (1) , 36-47
- https://doi.org/10.3366/jsbnh.1953.3.1.36
Abstract
De Haan's volume dealing with the Crustacea of the Fauna Japonica is one of the most important early carcinological publications as it contains the descriptions of numerous new genera and species. It is therefore repeatedly consulted by anyone seriously occupied in the study of Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea. This volume was published in seven fascicles, called "Decades." It is of course of the utmost importance, not in the least for carcinological nomenclature, to know the dates of publication and the exact contents as to text and plates of each separate " Decas." Since 1943 I have been trying to obtain this information, but until very recently I was unsuccessful. In 1947 (Holthuis, Siboga Exped., mon. 39 a 8 : 85 (footnote)) I published the dates of publication as far as they were known to me, but because of lack of information my 1947 list is incomplete, contains several errors|and thus should be ignored. In December 1951 and January 1952, however, I had the good fortune to gain possession of such data, that enabled me to give the exact year of publication of each part of the text and of all the plates of De Haan's work. These dates are as shown in the table on p. 37. The sources from which I obtained my information are discussed below. For convenience's sake these sources are arranged in two groups, viz. those for the text (I) and those for the plates (II), the latter group being divided in group Ha for the plates of decades I-V, and group lib for the plates of decades VI and VII. Each of these three groups (I, Ha, lib) is split into two categories : A for the published and B for the unpublished sources. In paragraph III the title-pages, the dedication and the wrappers of the fascicles will be discusseds Paragraph IV deals with the 1934 Tokyo photolith reprint edition of De Haan'. work ; it is followed by a short biographical note on De Haan.Keywords
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