Hand Book of the Common Crayfish

Contents: Preface. 1. The natural history of the common crayfish. 2. The physiology of the common crayfish. The mechanism by which the parts of the living engine are supplied with the materials necessary for their maintenance and growth. 3. The physiology of the common crayfish. The mechanism by which the living organism adjusts itself to surrounding conditions and reproduces itself. 4. The morphology of the common crayfish. The structure and the development of the individual. 5. The comparative morphology of the  crayfish. The structure and the development of the crayfish compared with those of other living beings. 6. The distribution and the aetiology of the crayfishes. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

"In writing this book about crayfishes it has not been my intension to compose a zoological monographs on that group of animals. Such a work, to be worthy on the name, would require the devotion of years of patient study to a mass of materials collected from many parts of the world." (jacket)