BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS; an Introduction to the study of our Native Lepidoptera. By H. T. Stainton. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10s. 6d. [In preparation.
BRITISH FERNS: an Introduction to the study of the Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta indigenous to the British Isles. With Chapters on the Structure, Propagation, Cultivation, Diseases, Uses, Preservation, and Distribution of Ferns. By Margaret Plues. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10s. 6d. [Ready.
BRITISH SEAWEEDS; an Introduction to the study of our Native Marine Algæ. By S. O. Gray. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10s. 6d. [In preparation.
⸪ A good introductory series of books on British Natural History for the use of students and amateurs is still a desideratum. Those at present in use have been too much compiled from antiquated sources; while the figures, copied in many instances from sources equally antiquated, are far from accurate, the colouring of them having become degenerated through the adoption, for the sake of cheapness, of mechanical processes.
The present series will be entirely the result of original research carried to its most advanced point; and the figures, which will be chiefly engraved on steel, by the artist most highly renowned in each department for his technical knowledge of the subjects, will in all cases be drawn from actual specimens, and coloured separately by hand.
LONDON:
LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.