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JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

THE
RHODODENDRONS
OF
SIKKIM-HIMALAYA;
Being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Province of Sikkim, on the Eastern Himalaya Mountains.

BY
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S.
EDITED BY SIR W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S.A.
Imp. folio. Thirty Plates. £3 16s. coloured.

"In this work we have the first results of Dr. Hooker's botanical mission to India. The announcement is calculated to startle some of our readers when they know that it was only last January twelvemonths that the Doctor arrived in Calcutta. That he should have ascended the Himalaya, discovered a number of plants, and that they should be published in England in an almost UNEQUALLED STYLE OF MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATION, in less than eighteen months, is one of the marvels of our time."—Athenæum.

"A most beautiful example of fine drawing and skilful colouring, while the letter-press furnished by the talented author possesses very high interest. Of the species of Rhododendron which he has found in his adventurous journey, some are quite unrivalled in magnificence of appearance. We recommend the district to the nurseryman. Whoever could bring home plenty of seeds of these plants would require no better foundation for a little fortune."—Gardeners' Chronicle.

Also, by the same Author,

1.
FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND.
Parts I., II., and III. Twenty Plates. Price 21s. plain; £1 11s. 6d. coloured. To be completed in Five Parts.

2.
THE BOTANY OF THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE.
Two Hundred Plates. 2 vols, royal 4to, cloth. £7 10s. plain; £10 15s. coloured.

LONDON:
REEVE AND CO., HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

LIST OF WORKS
PRINCIPALLY ON
NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE,
PUBLISHED BY
REEVE AND CO.,
5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

BOTANY.

THE VICTORIA REGIA. By Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. In elephant folio. Illustrated on a large scale by W. Fitch. 31s. 6d.

The work on the Royal Water Lily contains four plates of very large size, expensively coloured, illustrative of the different stages of flowering and fruiting, with analyses of structure, as follows:—

1. A view of the entire plant, flower, fruit, and leaves, on the water.

2. A flower of the natural size in progress of expanding, together with as much of the enormous foliage as the broad dimensions of the paper will admit.

3. A fully expanded flower of the natural size, with foliage, &c.

4. A vertical section of the fully developed flower, with various dissections and analyses.

"Although many works have been devoted to the illustration and description of the Victoria regia, it seemed still to want one which, whilst it gave an accurate botanical description of the plant, should at the same time show the natural size of its gigantic flowers. This object has been aimed at by the combined labours of Sir W. Hooker and Mr. Fitch, and with distinguished success. The illustrations are everything that could be desired in the shape of botanical drawings. They are accurate, and they are beautiful."—Athenæum.

THE RHODODENDRONS OF SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. With drawings and descriptions made on the spot. By J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker, D.C.L., F.R.S. In handsome imperial folio, with thirty coloured plates. Price 3l. 11s.

"In this work we have the first results of Dr. Hooker's botanical mission to India. The announcement is calculated to startle some of our readers when they know that it was only last January twelvemonths that the Doctor arrived in Calcutta. That he should have ascended the Himalaya, discovered a number of plants, and that they should be published in England in an almost UNEQUALLED STYLE OF MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATION, in less than eighteen months—is one of the marvels of our time."—Athenæum.

"A most beautiful example of fine drawing and skilful colouring, while the letter-press furnished by the talented author possesses very high interest. Of the species of Rhododendron which he has found in his adventurous journey, some are quite unrivalled in magnificence of appearance."—Gardeners' Chronicle.

SANDERS'S PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE OF THE VINE. With plates. 8vo. 5s.

"Mr. Assheton Smith's place at Tedworth has long possessed a great English reputation for the excellence of its fruit and vegetables: one is continually hearing in society of the extraordinary abundance and perfection of its produce at seasons when common gardens are empty, and the great world seems to have arrived at the conclusion that the kitchen gardening and forcing there are nowhere excelled. We have, therefore, examined with no common interest the work before us, for it will be strange indeed, if a man who can act so skilfully as Mr. Sanders should be unable to offer advice of corresponding value. We have not been disappointed. Mr. Sanders's directions are as plain as words can make them; and, we will add, as judicious as his long experience had led us to expect. After a careful perusal of his little treatise, we find nothing to object to, and much to praise."—Gardeners' Chronicle.

"A clever, well-written, and nicely illustrated horticultural pamphlet, telling us all we want to know on the subject."—Guardian.

PHYCOLOGIA BRITANNICA; or, History of the British Sea-weeds; containing coloured figures, and descriptions, of all the species of Algæ inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. By William Henry Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A., Keeper of the Herbarium of the University of Dublin, and Professor of Botany to the Dublin Society. The price of the work, complete, strongly bound in cloth, is as follows:-

In three vols, royal 8vo, arranged in the order of publication£7 12 6
In four vols, royal 8vo, arranged systematically according to the Synopsis£7 17 6

A few Copies have been printed on large paper.

"The 'History of British Sea-weeds' we can most faithfully recommend for its scientific, its pictorial, and its popular value; the professed botanist will find it a work of the highest character, whilst those who desire merely to know the names and history of the lovely plants which they gather on the sea-shore, will find in it the faithful portraiture of every one of them."—Annals and Magazine of Natural History.

"The drawings are beautifully executed by the author himself on stone, the dissections carefully prepared, and the whole account of the species drawn up in such a way as cannot fail to be instructive, even to those who are well acquainted with the subject. The greater part of our more common Algæ have never been illustrated in a manner agreeable to the present state of Algology."—Gardeners' Chronicle.

POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH SEA-WEEDS, comprising all the Marine Plants. By the Rev. David Landsborough, A.L.S., Member of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh. With twenty coloured plates by Fitch. Second Edition. Royal 16mo. 10s. 6d.

"The book is as well executed as it is well timed. The descriptions are scientific as well as popular, and the plates are clear and explicit. Not only the forms, but the uses of Algæ, are minutely described. It is a worthy SEA-SIDE COMPANION—a handbook for every occasional or permanent resident on the sea-shore."—Economist.

"Those who wish to make themselves acquainted with British Sea-weeds, cannot do better than begin with this elegantly illustrated manual."—Globe.

"This elegant work, though intended for beginners, is well worthy the perusal of those advanced in the science."—Morning Herald.

A CENTURY OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, selected from those most worthy of cultivation figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, with coloured figures and dissections, chiefly executed by Mr. Fitch; the descriptions (entirely re-written) by Sir William J. Hooker, F.R.S. With an introduction on the culture of Orchidaceæ generally, and on the treatment of each genus; by John C. Lyons, Esq. Royal 4to, containing one hundred coloured plates. Price Five Guineas.

"In the exquisite illustrations to this splendid volume full justice has been rendered to the oddly formed and often brilliantly coloured flowers of this curious and interesting tribe of plants."—Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review.

"A very acceptable addition to our knowledge of the Orchis tribe. The plates are beautifully executed, and have been selected with great care. Each species has a brief character attached, and to each genus botanical and practical observations, from the pen of Sir William Hooker, are prefixed. The work is enriched with a prefatory memoir by Mr. Lyons, full of sound judgment and experience, on the most approved method of growing Orchids."—Literary Gazette.

POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS, comprising all the Species. By Thomas Moore. With twenty coloured plates by Fitch. Royal 16mo, cloth. 10s. 6d.

"Mr. Moore's 'Popular History of British Ferns' forms one of the numerous elegant and instructive books by which Messrs. Reeve and Co. have endeavoured to popularize the study of Natural History. In the volume before us, Mr. Moore gives a clear account of the British Ferns, with directions for their cultivation; accompanied by numerous coloured plates neatly illustrated, and preceded by a general introduction on the natural character of this graceful class of plants."—Spectator.

"We have rarely, if ever, seen a publication relating to plants where the object aimed at is more fully accomplished than in this elegant volume."—Hooker's Journal.

"A prettily got-up book, and fit for a drawing-room table."—The Friend.

THE BRITISH DESMIDIEÆ; or, Fresh-Water Algæ. By John Ralfs, M.R.C.S., Honorary Member of the Penzance Nat. Hist. Society. The Drawings by Edward Jenner, A.L.S. Royal 8vo, thirty-five coloured plates. Price 36s. cloth.

NEREIS AUSTRALIS; or, Illustrations of the Algæ of the Southern Ocean. By Professor Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A. To be completed in Four Parts, each containing twenty-five coloured plates, imp. 8vo. Price 1l. 1s. Parts I. and II. recently published.

"Of this most important contribution to our knowledge of exotic Algæ, we know not if we can pay it a higher compliment than by saying it is worthy of the author. It should be observed that the work is not a selection of certain species, but an arranged system of all that is known of Australian Algæ, accompanied by figures of the new and rare ones, especially of those most remarkable for beauty of form and colour."—London Journal of Botany.

CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE (commenced in 1786); Continued by Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., &c., Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew.

Published in monthly numbers, each containing six plates, price 3s. 6d. coloured; and in annual volumes, price 42s.

HOOKER'S JOURNAL OF BOTANY and KEW GARDENS Miscellany. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker.

This Botanical Journal, in addition to original papers by Eminent Botanists, contains the Botanical News of the month, Communications from Botanical Travellers, Notices of New Books, &c.

In monthly numbers, with a plate, price 2s.

ICONES PLANTARUM; or, Figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new and rare Plants. Published monthly, with eight plates. Price 2s. 6d.

(Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.)

FLORA ANTARCTICA; or, Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, during the years 1839-1843, under the command of Capt. Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S. By Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D., R.N., F.R.S., &c., Botanist to the Expedition. In two vols. royal 4to, cloth, containing 200 plates. Price 10l. 15s. coloured; 7l. 10s. plain.

"The descriptions of the plants in this work are carefully drawn up, and much interesting matter, critical, explanatory, and historical, is added in the form of notes. The drawings of the plants are admirably executed by Mr. Fitch; and we know of no productions from his pencil, or, in fact, any botanical illustrations at all, that are superior in faithful representation and botanical correctness."—Athenæum.

CRYPTOGAMIA ANTARCTICA; or, Cryptogamic Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Ships Erebus and Terror. By Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Royal 4to, cloth, containing 74 plates. Price 4l. 4s. coloured; 2l. 17s. plain.

THE ESCULENT FUNGUSES OF ENGLAND; a treatise on their History, Uses, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Mode of Cooking, Preserving, &c. By the Rev. Dr. Badham. Super-royal 8vo, cloth, coloured plates. 21s.

"The English are not a fungus-eating nation; and though we do not eat frogs like our neighbours, we are rather celebrated for our love of another of the reptilian family—turtle. There is no reason why we should eschew frogs and relish turtle; still less is there for our eating one or two of the numerous edible funguses which our island produces, and condemning all the rest. To draw attention to this fact, and to supply an accurate account, with a correct delineation, of the esculent species of this family in Great Britain, are the objects of the book before us. Such a work was a desideratum in this country, and it has been well supplied by Dr. Badham; with his beautiful drawings of the various edible fungi in his hand the collector can scarcely make a mistake. The majority of those which grow in our meadows, and in the decaying wood of our orchards and forests, are unfit for food; and the value of Dr. Badham's book consists in the fact, that it enables us to distinguish from these such as may be eaten with impunity."—Athenæum.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY; containing Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of interest and novelty indigenous to Britain. First Series. By Mrs. Hussey. 4to, cloth gilt, with ninety beautifully coloured drawings. Price 7l. 12s. 6d.

"This talented lady and her sister were in the first instance induced to draw some of the more striking Fungi, merely as picturesque objects. Their collection of drawings at length became important from their number and accuracy, and a long continued study of the nutritive properties of Fungi has induced the former to lay the results of her investigations before the public, under the form of illustrations of the more useful and interesting species. The figures are so faithful that there can be no difficulty in at once determining with certainty the objects they are intended to represent; and the observations will be found of much interest to the general reader."—Gardeners' Chronicle.

"This is an elegant and interesting book: it would be an ornament to the drawing-room table; but it must not, therefore, be supposed that the value of the work is not intrinsic, for a great deal of new and valuable matter accompanies the plates, which are not fancy sketches, but so individualized and life-like, that to mistake any species seems impossible. The accessories of each are significant of site, soil, and season of growth, so that the botanist may study with advantage what the artist may inspect with admiration."—Morning Post.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY; containing Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of interest and novelty indigenous to Britain. Second Series. By Mrs. Hussey. Publishing in Monthly Parts, coloured drawings, price 5s.

VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS; or, History of Forest Trees, Lichens, Mosses, and Ferns. By Mary Roberts. Elegantly bound. With twenty coloured Plates of Forest Scenery, by Fitch. Royal 16mo. 10s. 6d.

"This work includes a wide range of genera, from the lichen to the oak, and by way of giving variety to a subject so commonplace, the several plants are supposed to tell their own stories, and describe their own family peculiarities."—Atlas.

"The fair authoress of this pretty volume has shown more than the usual good taste of her sex in the selection of her mode of conveying to the young interesting instruction upon pleasing topics. She bids them join in a ramble through the sylvan wilds, and at her command the fragile lichen, the gnarled oak, the towering beech, the graceful chestnut, and the waving poplar discourse eloquently, and tell their respective histories and uses."—Britannia.

POPULAR FIELD BOTANY; containing a familiar and technical description of the plants most common to the British Isles, adapted to the study of either the Artificial or Natural Systems. By Agnes Catlow. Second Edition. Arranged in twelve chapters, each being the Botanical lesson for the month. Containing twenty coloured plates of figures. Royal 16mo. 10s. 6d.

"The design of this work is to furnish young persons with a Self-instructor in Botany, enabling them with little difficulty to discover the scientific names of the common plants they may find in their country rambles, to which are appended a few facts respecting their uses, habits, &c. The plants are classed in months, the illustrations are nicely coloured, and the book is altogether an elegant, as well as useful present."—Illustrated London News.

THE TOURIST'S FLORA. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. By Joseph Woods, F.A.S, F.L.S, F.G.S. 8vo. 18s.

"The appearance of this book has been long expected by us; and we can justly state that it has quite fulfilled all our expectations, and will support the high reputation of its author. Mr. Woods is known to have spent many years in collecting and arranging the materials for the present work, with a view to which he has, we believe, visited all the most interesting localities mentioned in it. This amount of labour, combined with extensive botanical knowledge, has enabled him to produce a volume such as few, if any other, botanists were capable of writing."—Annals of Natural History.

ZOOLOGY.

(Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.)

ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SAMARANG. Edited by Arthur Adams, F.L.S, Assistant-Surgeon, R.N, attached to the Expedition.

Vertebrata. By John Edward Gray, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum.

Fishes. By Sir John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.

Mollusca. By the Editor and Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. Including the anatomy of the Spirula, by Prof. Owen, F.R.S.

Crustacea. By the Editor and Adam White, F.L.S.

Complete in one handsome royal 4to volume, containing 55 plates. Price, strongly bound in cloth, 3l. 10s.

THE BIRDS OF IRELAND. By William Thompson, Esq., President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Belfast. Vol. I., price 16s. cloth. Vol. II, price 12s. Vol. III., price 16s., 8vo, cloth.

"Our readers, if once they get hold of this work, will not readily lay it down; for while habits are dwelt upon in a manner so amusing that we have known extracts to be read aloud to a delighted circle of children, it contains the precise information which the ornithologist demands, and brings forward topics both of popular and scientific interest, such as the geographical distribution of species, the causes which seem to operate on their increase and decrease, their migrations, their uses to man, the occasional injuries they inflict, and the important benefits they confer. It is a STANDARD WORK, and will rank with those of our first ornithologists."—Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ORNITHOLOGY. By Sir William Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c.

The "Contributions" are devoted to the various departments of Ornithology. They are published at intervals in Parts, and form an annual Volume, illustrated by numerous coloured and uncoloured Plates, Woodcuts, &c.

The Series for 1848, containing ten Plates, price 9s.

The Series for 1849, containing twenty-four Plates, price 21s.

The Series for 1850, containing twenty-one Plates, Vignettes, and Woodcuts, price 21s.

The Series for 1851, containing fourteen Plates, price 18s.

THE DODO AND ITS KINDRED; or, the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. Strickland, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., President of the Ashmolean Society, and A. G. Melville, M.D., M.R.C.S. Royal quarto, with eighteen plates and numerous wood-illustrations. Price 21s.

"The labour expended on this book, and the beautiful manner in which it is got up, render it a work of great interest to the naturalist. * * It is a model of how such subjects should be treated. We know of few more elaborate and careful pieces of comparative anatomy than is given of the head and foot by Dr. Melville. The dissection is accompanied by lithographic plates, creditable alike to the Artist and the Printer."—Athenæum.

POPULAR BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY; comprising a familiar and technical description of the Birds of the British Isles. By P. H. Gosse, Author of 'The Ocean,' 'The Birds of Jamaica,' &c. In twelve chapters, each being the Ornithological lesson for the month. In one vol. royal 16mo, with twenty plates of figures. Price 10s. 6d. coloured.

"To render the subject of ornithology clear, and its study attractive, has been the great aim of the author of this beautiful little volume.... It is embellished by upwards of 70 figures of British birds beautifully coloured."—Morning Herald.

"This was a book much wanted, and will prove a boon of no common value, containing, as it does, the names, descriptions, and habits of all the British birds. It is handsomely got up."—Mirror.

CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Shells of Molluscous Animals, with critical remarks on their synonyms, affinities, and circumstances of habitation. By Lovell Reeve, F.L.S.

Demy 4to. Published monthly, in Parts, each containing eight plates. Price 10s.

SOLD ALSO IN MONOGRAPHS:

£s.d.
Achatina190
Achatinella080
Arca116
Artemis0130
Buccinum0180
Bulimus5120
Bullia056
Cardita0116
Cardium180
Cassidaria016
Cassis0156
Chama0116
Chiton220
Chitonellus016
Conus300
Corbula066
Crassatella040
Cypræa1140
Cypricardia030
Delphinula066
Dolium0106
Eburna016
Fasciolaria090
Ficula016
Fissurella106
Fusus166
Glauconome016
Haliotis110
Harpa056
Hemipecten016
Ianthina030
Isocardia016
Lucina0140
Mangelia0106
Mesalia0106
Eglisia0106
Mitra2100
Monoceros056
Murex256
Myadora016
Oliva1180
Oniscia016
Paludomus040
Partula056
Pectunculus0116
Phorus040
Pleurotoma2106
Pterocera080
Purpura0170
Pyrula0116
Ranella0106
Ricinula080
Rostellaria046
Strombus146
Struthiolaria016
Turbinella0170
Triton156
Turbo0170
Turritella0146
Voluta180

The genus Helix is in course of publication.

SOLD ALSO IN VOLUMES:

Vol. I.Conus
Pleurotoma
Crassatella
Phorus
Pectunculus
Cardita
Delphinula
Cypricardia
Harpa
[122 Plates, price 7l. 16s. 6d. half-bound.]
Vol. II.Corbula
Arca
Triton
Glauconome
Myadora
Ranella
Mitra
Cardium
Isocardia
[114 Plates, price 7l. 6s. 6d. half-bound.]
Vol. III.Murex
Cypræa
Haliotis
Mangelia
Purpura
Ricinula
Monoceros
Bullia
Buccinum
[129 Plates, price 8l. 5s. 6d. half-bound.]
Vol. IV.Chama
Chiton
Chitonellus
Ficula
Pyrula
Turbinella
Fasciolaria
Fusus
Paludomus
Turbo
[110 Plates, price 7l. 1s. 6d. half-bound.]
Vol. V.Bulimus
Achatina
Dolium
Cassis
Turritella
Mesalia
Eglisia
Oniscia
Cassidaria
Eburna
[147 Plates, price 9l. 7s. 6d. half-bound.]
Vol. VI.Voluta
Fissurella
Partula
Achatinella
Artemis
Lucina
Hemipecten
Oliva
Strombus
Pterocera
Rostellaria
Struthiolaria
[129 Plates, price 8l. 5s. 6d. half-bound.]

The figures are drawn and lithographed by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, Junr., of the natural size, from specimens chiefly in the collection of Mr. Cuming.

"This great work is intended to embrace a complete description and illustration of the shells of molluscous animals, and, so far as we have seen, it is not such as to disappoint the large expectations that have been formed respecting it. The figures of the shells are all of full size; in the descriptions a careful analysis is given of the labours of others; and the author has apparently spared no pains to make the work a standard authority on the subject of which it treats."—Athenæum.

CONCHOLOGIA SYSTEMATICA; or, Complete System of Conchology, illustrated with 300 plates of upwards of 1500 figures of Shells. By Lovell Reeve, F.L.S.

"The text is both interesting and instructive; many of the plates have appeared before in Mr. Sowerby's works, but from the great expense of collecting them, and the miscellaneous manner of their publication, many persons will no doubt gladly avail themselves of this select and classified portion, which also contains many original figures."—Athenæum.

In two quarto volumes, cloth. Price 10l. coloured; 6l. plain.

ELEMENTS OF CONCHOLOGY; or, Introduction to the Natural History of Shells and their animals. By Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. Parts I. to X., price 3s. 6d. each.

"The work before us is designed to promote a more philosophical spirit of inquiry into the nature and origin of Shells."—Ecclesiastical Review.

CONCHOLOGIST'S NOMENCLATOR; or, Catalogue of recent species of Shells, with their authorities, synonyms, and references to works where figured or described. By Agnes Catlow, assisted by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S.

In sheets for labels, 20s. Cloth, 21s. Half-bound, interleaved, 25s.

CONCHYLIA DITHYRA INSULARUM BRITANNICARUM. The Bivalve Shells of the British Isles, systematically arranged. By William Turton, M.D. Reprinted verbatim from the original edition. The illustrations, printed from the original copper-plates, are distinguished for their accurate detail. Twenty coloured plates. Price 2l. 10s.

POPULAR HISTORY OF MOLLUSCA; or, Shells and their Animal Inhabitants. By Mary Roberts. Royal 16mo, with twenty coloured plates by Wing. Price 10s. 6d.

"This little volume forms another of the excellent series of illustrated works on various departments of Natural History, for which the public is indebted to Mr. Reeve.... When we add, that the plates contain no fewer than ninety figures of shells, with their animal inhabitants, all of them well, and several admirably, executed, and that the text is written throughout in a readable and even elegant style, with such digression in poetry and prose as serve to relieve its scientific details, we think that we have said enough to justify the favourable opinion we have expressed."—British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review.

CURTIS'S BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, comprising coloured figures, from nature, of the most rare and beautiful species, and, in many instances, of the plants upon which they are found. By John Curtis, F.L.S.

The 'British Entomology' was originally brought out in Monthly Numbers, size royal 8vo, at 4s. 6d., each containing four coloured plates with text. It was commenced in 1824, and completed in 1840, in 193 Numbers, forming 16 volumes, price £43 16s.

The work is now offered new, and in the best condition:—

Price to Subscribers for complete copies in sixteen volumes £21. Price of the new issue, and of odd Numbers . . . 3s. 6d. per No.

Vols. I. and II. of the New Issue are now ready for delivery.

INSECTA BRITANNICA. Diptera. By F. Walker, Esq. F.L.S. Vol. I. Illustrated with plates. Price 25s.

EPISODES OF INSECT LIFE. Three vols., crown 8vo, with 108 illustrations. Price 2l. 8s., elegantly bound in fancy cloth. Coloured and bound extra, gilt back, sides, and edges, 3l. 3s.

Each volume, containing thirty-six illustrations, is complete in itself, and sold separately. Price 16s. plain, 21s. coloured.

"The book includes solid instruction as well as genial and captivating mirth. The scientific knowledge of the writer is thoroughly reliable."—Examiner.

"The letterpress is interspersed with vignettes clearly and cleverly engraved on stone: and the whole pile of Natural History—fable, poetry, theory, and fact—is stuck over with quaint apophthegms and shrewd maxims, deduced for the benefit of man from the contemplation of such tiny monitors as gnats and moths. Altogether the book is a curious and interesting one—quaint and clever, genial and well-informed."—Morning Chronicle.

POPULAR BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, comprising a familiar and technical description of the Insects most common to the British Isles. By Maria E. Catlow. In twelve chapters, each being the Entomological lesson for the month. In one vol. royal 16mo, with sixteen coloured plates of figures. Price 10s. 6d.

"Judiciously executed, with excellent figures of the commoner species, for the use of young beginners."—Annual Address of the President of the Entomological Society.

"Miss Catlow's 'Popular British Entomology' contains an introductory chapter or two on classification, which are followed by brief generic and specific descriptions in English of above 200 of the commoner British species, together with accurate figures of about 70 of those described; and will be quite a treasure to anyone just commencing the study of this fascinating science."—Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review.

POPULAR HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. By Adam White, F.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. With sixteen coloured Plates of Quadrupeds, &c. by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, F.L.S. Royal 16mo. 10s. 6d.

"The present increase of our stores of anecdotal matter respecting every kind of animal has been used with much tact by Mr. White, who has a terse chatty way of putting down his reflections, mingled with that easy familiarity which every one accustomed daily to zoological pursuits is sure to attain. The book is profusely illustrated."—Atlas.

THE BRITISH PALÆOZOIC FOSSILS, added by Professor Sedgwick to the Woodwardian Museum. By Professor M'Coy. In royal 4to, with numerous Plates.

Part I., containing the Radiata and Articulata, is now ready. 16s.

Part II., containing the Lower Palæozoic Mollusca, is in the press.

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ELEMENTARY PHYSICS; an Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy. By Robert Hunt, Professor of Mechanical Science at the Government School of Mines, Author of 'Poetry of Science,' 'Researches on Light,' and 'Handbook to the Great Exhibition.' Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, and 217 vignettes and wood engravings. Fcap. 8vo, cloth. 10s. 6d.

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. General Properties of Ponderable Matter.

Chapter II. General Laws of Motion.

Chapter III. Laws of Slightly Elastic Fluids.

Chapter IV. Laws of Elastic Fluids.

Chapter V. Sonorous Movement of Bodies.

Chapter VI. Primary Phenomena of Electricity.

Chapter VII. Heat, or Caloric.

Chapter VIII. Light and Actinism.

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POPULAR MINERALOGY; a Familiar account of Minerals and their Uses. By Henry Sowerby. Royal 16mo, with plates of figures. 10s. 6d.

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PANTHEA, THE SPIRIT OF NATURE. By Robert Hunt, Author of 'The Poetry of Science.' One vol. 8vo, cloth. 10s. 6d.

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THE POETRY OF SCIENCE; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature. By Robert Hunt, Author of 'Panthea,' and 'Researches on Light.' Second Edition. Revised. With an Index. One vol. 8vo, cloth. 12s.

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ILLUSTRATIONS of the WISDOM and BENEVOLENCE of the DEITY, as manifested in Nature. By H. Edwards, LL.D. Cloth, 2s. 6d.

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DROPS OF WATER; their marvellous and beautiful Inhabitants displayed by the Microscope. By Agnes Catlow. Square 12mo, with coloured plates. 7s. 6d.

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NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SAMARANG, during the years 1843-46. By Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, C.B, F.R.A.S. and G.S, Commander of the Expedition, With a Popular Summary of the Natural History of the islands visited, by Arthur Adams, F.L.S. In two vols. 8vo, with thirty-five charts, coloured plates, and etchings. Price 36s. cloth.

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NEW WORKS
TO BE
PUBLISHED IN MAY AND JUNE.

1.

PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS; or, Practical Notes on Country Residences, Villas, Public Parks, and Gardens. By Charles J. H. Smith, Landscape Gardener.

2.

TALPA; or, THE CHRONICLE OF A CLAY FARM: an Agricultural Fragment. By C. W. H. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.

3.

POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. By the Rev. Dr. Landsborough. With Coloured Plates.

4.

POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY; or, History of the Animals mentioned in the Bible. By Maria Catlow. With Coloured Plates.

5.

WESTERN HIMALAYA AND TIBET; the Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the Years 1847-8. By Thomas Thomson, M.D.

6.

FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. By Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S. With Coloured Plates.

7.

FLORA OF WESTERN ESKIMAUX-LAND, including the Sound to Point Barrow, and the adjacent Islands. By Berthold Seemann. With Plates.
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