The literature of Carcinology is bewildering in its extent, and is for the most part scattered through the volumes of scientific periodicals and the publications of learned societies in most of the languages of Europe. A guide to the current literature is provided by the Zoological Record, the latest volume of which, relating to the year 1909, enumerates no fewer than 337 papers dealing wholly or in part with this group of animals.
The following short list of books in the English language may be of some help to the beginner. Most of them give references to the literature which will provide the necessary guidance towards a further study of the subject.
General Work
Huxley, T. H. The Crayfish: an Introduction to the Study of Zoology. International Science Series, vol. xxviii. London, 1880.
Stebbing, T. R. R. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca. International Science Series, vol. lxxiv. London, 1893.
Calman, W. T. Crustacea. A Treatise on Zoology, edited by Sir Ray Lankester. Part vii., fascicle iii. London, 1909.
Smith, G., and Weldon, W. F. R. Crustacea. The Cambridge Natural History, vol. iv. London, 1909.
Lister, J. J. Crustacea, in "A Student's Textbook of Zoology," by Adam Sedgwick. Vol. iii. London, 1909.