A Dictionary of Non-Scientific Names of Freshwater Crayfishes ...

Congress, made available rare books in her care; Alain
Crosnier, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris,
kindly helped with the provincial words of Bretagne;
and Lipke B. Holthuis, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke
Historie, Leiden, provided many thoughtful additions,
critically reviewed much of the manuscript, and talked
with me about words and myths one cold, wet March
day in Leiden—when we forgot the time and barely
escaped being locked in the Museum at closing.
I also thank Hoyt N. Duggan, Dept. of English,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Mark Grygier,
Seto Marine Laboratory, Honshu, Japan; Laura Hurley,
University of Washington; Kenneth Manaha, U.S.
Dept. of Health and Human Services, Washington;
James Marchand, Center for Advanced Studies, University
of Illinois; George Marinenko, MITRE Corporation,
McLean, Virginia; Laili Nasr, Bethesda, Maryland;
Rev. Robert Pettigrew, Vienna, Virginia, retired;
RonSchwarz, MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia;
Ruth Sternglantz, Dept. of English, New York University;
Pieter van der Veer, I.B.M. Corporation, Rockville,
Maryland; Barbara Wright, MITRE Corporation,
McLean, Virginia; and Wolfgang Zeidler, South
Australian Museum, Adelaide, for their thoughtful and
diverse contributions.
In addition, I am indebted to Stan Shetler, Associate
Director of the National Museum of Natural History,
for support from the Research Opportunities Fund
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY
which enabled me to visit libraries in the U.K. and
Australia during 1992; and to Donald Fisher, Smithsonian
Institution Press, for his thoughtful help with
editorial matters. To the staff members of the British
Library, London; the Library of the British Museum
(Natural History), London; the Library of New South
Wales, Sydney; the Library of Congress, Washington;
and the Fairfax County George Mason Regional Library,
Annandale, Virginia, go my thanks—all were
knowledgable, cheerful, and seemingly possessed of
unlimited patience.
My wife, Dabney, warmly encouraged me with this
project even as I became somewhat fixated on crayfish
names and managed to insinuate them into unrelated
conversations over the past 8 years.
And finally, I am grateful to those who built the
INTERNET, that unparalleled electronic highway for
cross-disciplinary research. In particular, the BITNET
discussion list MEDTEXT-L@UIUCVMD—devoted to
the philology, codicology, and analysis of medieval
texts—led me to a number of individuals, acknowledged
elsewhere, who generously contributed more than they
probably realize.
In spite of the remarkable help I have received from
so many people, I must add that errors, omissions,
inconsistencies (there are many), and statements contrary
to fact or offensive to anyone are entirely my fault
and are certainly unintentional.
FIGURE 4.-A representative of freshwater crabs. Note the broad, flattened body (cephalothorax) discussed on page 4, as well as the almost
hidden abdomen (see figure 2) which, in crabs, is usually tucked under the body. From Chace and Hobbs, 1969, figure 42.