20 LOVELL REEVE AND CO.'s PUBLICATIONS. 



Commencement of a New Series of Natural History 



for Beginners. 



BRITISH BEETLES; a Familiar Introduction **the study 



of our Indigenous COLEOPTERA. By E. C. RYE. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured 

 Steel Plates, comprising Figures of nearly 100 Species, engraved from Na- 

 tural Specimens, expressly for the work, by E. W. ROBINSON, and 11 

 Wood-Engravings of Dissections by the Author, 10*. 6d. [Ready. 



BRITISH SPIDERS ; a Familiar Introduction to the study 



of our Native AKACHNIDA. By E. F. STAVELEY. Crown Svo, 16 Co- 

 loured Plates and Wood-Engravings, 10*. &d. [Nearly ready. 



BRITISH BEES ; a Familiar Introduction to the study of 

 our Native Bees. By W. E. SCHUCKARD. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured Plates, 

 and Wood-Engravings, 10*. &d. [Ready, 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS; a Familiar 



Introduction to the study of our Native LEPIDOPTERA. By H. T. STAINTON. 

 Crown Svo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10s. &d. 



[_ln preparation. 



BRITISH FERNS : a Familiar Introduction to the Study of 



our Native Ferns and their Allies. By MARGARET PLUES. Crown Svo, 

 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10*. &d. [Ready. 



BRITISH SEAWEEDS; a Familiar Introduction to the 



study of our Native Marine ALG.E. By S. 0. GRAY. Crown Svo, 16 

 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10*. 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. 



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