Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. At head of title: Smithsonian institution. United States national museum "The papers contained in the present book were originally published in the twenty-seventh volume of the Proceedings of the United States National museum for 1904 ... These papers were first presented as an inaugural dissertation for the degree of Doctor of philosophy at Columbian university in June, 1903"--Note Bibliography: p. vii "List of references": p. 32, 46, 51, 55-58, 89 and 104 Preface.--Introduction.--I. Isopoda collected in Japan in the year 1900 by the U.S. Fish commission steamer Albatross, and in the year 1881 by the U.S.S. Palos.--II. Isopoda collected in Japan by Jordan and Snyder.--III. Two new cymothoids from the west coast of Central America.--IV. American Epicaridea: North American Epicaridea. South American Epicaridea.--V. Isopod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America.--VI. Isopoda collected at the Hawaiian Islands by the U.S. Fish commission steamer Albatross