MRS. POWER O’DONOGHUE.
Ladies on Horseback. Learning, Park Riding, and Hunting. With Notes upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes. With Portrait and Illustrations. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
WILLIAM PROCTOR, Stud Groom.
The Management and Treatment of the Horse in the Stable, Field, and on the Road. New and Revised Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W.
List of Forthcoming Publications.
[READY EARLY IN 1893.]
W. SAVILLE-KENT, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.I.Inst., &c.
Super-Royal 4to, with 16 Chromo Plates and 48 Plates in Photo-mezzotype.
£3 13s. 6d. net.
THE
GREAT BARRIER REEF OF AUSTRALIA:
ITS PRODUCTS AND POTENTIALITIES.
Containing an Account, with Copious Coloured and Photographic
Illustrations (the latter here produced for the
first time), of the
Corals and Coral Reefs, Pearl and Pearl Shell, Bêche-de-Mer, other
Fishing Industries, and the Marine Fauna of the
Australian Great Barrier Region.
By W. SAVILLE-KENT, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.I.Inst., &c.
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, represented by a vast rampart of coral origin, extending for no less a length than twelve hundred miles from Torres Straits to Lady Elliot Island on the Queensland coast, takes rank among the most notable of the existing wonders of the world. Built up by the direct and indirect agency of soft-fleshed polyps of multitudinous form and colour, it encloses betwixt its outer border and the adjacent mainland a tranquil ocean highway for vessels of the heaviest draught. To the naturalist, and more particularly to the marine biologist, the entire Barrier area is a perfect Eldorado, its prolific waters teeming with animal organisms of myriad form and hue representative of every marine zoological group.