Excerpt from Contributions to Biology From the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, Vol. 10: Scientific Names of Latin and Greek Derivation This memoir is the tenth of a series designed to illustrate investigations and explorations connected with the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, an adjunct of the biological labora tories of the Leland Stanford Junior University. These investigations have been carried on by means of the assist ance given of Timothy Hopkins, Esq., of Menlo Park, California. The memoirs forming this series are published in the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, the present edition being a reprint from these proceedings. 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.