Excerpt from The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition, Vol. 1: Hymenosomidae, Retroplumidae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae and Gegarcinidae With 6 Plates I have to thank heartily my fellow-countryman Dr. J. G. DE man, who kindly and readily, in his usual way, assisted me by lending rare memoirs. The help of this excellent carcinologist has been the more appreciated by me, as international scientific intercourse nowadays is reduced to the extreme! 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.