Consisting of short Treatises on the Fundamental Principles and Characteristic Features of Scientific and Practical Pursuits, with numerous Illustrative Engravings on Wood. Now publishing in Weekly Numbers, price Twopence, and in Monthly Parts and Quarterly Volumes.
Now ready, Vol. I.: Organic Nature. In fancy boards, 2s. 6d., or cl. elegant, 3s.
Contents.—Introductory Treatise: on the Nature, Connexion, and Uses of the Great Departments of Human Knowledge—Physiology of Animal and Vegetable Life. By the Editor.—Principal Forms of the Skeleton—The Teeth of Animals; introductory to the Study of Zoology. By Professor Owen.—Races of Mankind. By Robert Gordon Latham, M.D., F.R.S.; with a copious Explanatory and Glossarial Index, etc.
Dr. Carpenter’s Works. New Editions, Revised and Corrected.
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY:
Including a Comprehensive Sketch of the Principal Forms of Animal Structure. With several Hundred Engravings on copper and wood.
ZOOLOGY AND INSTINCT IN ANIMALS:
A Systematic View of the Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the Principal Families in the Animal Kingdom, and the chief Forms of Fossil Remains. In two vols.
VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND BOTANY;
Including the Structure and Organs of Plants, their Characters, Uses, Geographical Distribution, and Classification, according to the Natural System of Botany.