The most convenient and generally useful work of reference on the subject that has appeared in the English language in recent years.
Book Review Digest.
The zealous student, anxious to bring his knowledge up to date, will find here a compendium on which he can rely.
Field.
The Cambridge Natural History series of volumes is one of very great value to all students of biological science.
Times.
There are very many, not only among educated people who take an interest in science, but even among specialists, who will welcome a work of reasonable compass and handy form containing a trustworthy treatment of the various departments of Natural History by men who are familiar with, and competent to deal with, the latest results of scientific research. Altogether, to judge from this first volume, the Cambridge Natural History promises to fulfil all the expectations that its prospectus holds out.
Academy.
The editors have aimed very high, and they have succeeded.... Well conceived, carefully coördinated, and executed with the greatest detail and completeness, the Cambridge Natural History is certain to rank high amongst those gigantic scientific works to which, within the last half-century or so, the labours of so many experts, each without hope of more glory than falls to a mere assistant, have contributed.
Athenæum.