500 YarreWs History of British Fishes. 



vignettes. There are to be three sizes of the work ; Svo f 

 royal 8vo, and imperial 8vo. The work in the 8vo and 

 royal 8vo sizes is to be completed in about 8 parts, pub- 

 lished monthly, and designed to compose one volume. 

 The price of the numbers, in 8vo size, is 2s. 6d. each, in 

 royal 8vo, 5s. i the number of copies produced of the latter 

 size will be limited. The copies in imperial 8vo size will 

 not be delivered until the work is completed : 50 will be 

 produced. 



" It is intended to give, in all cases," characters of the 

 genera and species, and an account of the native or domestic 

 habits of the species ; of * their utility in food, in manufac- 

 tures, in agriculture, or in domestic economy ;" and of " the 

 noxious qualities of such as are injurious to mankind." 



The general style of illustration will be similar to that 

 adopted in Yarrell's History of British Fishes : see below. 



In Noso 1 . and 2. the bats, the hedgehog, and the mole are 

 described and illustrated : the account of the mole is not 

 finished. Seventeen species of bats are described, and there 

 are 43 figures illustrative of them, and one tail-piece : in this 

 numbering of the figures every view of position of the head, . 

 or of the animal, is counted. Of the hedgehog there are 

 one figure and a tail-piece. Of the mole, in its hands, head, 

 and runs, 6 figures. The text and figures are of a superior 

 order : the text as to both matter and manner. 



" It is not proposed to restrict the work to those species 

 which are truly indigenous to the British Islands, but to in- 

 clude the principal varieties of such as are preserved amongst 

 us in a state of domesticity." 



Correspondents of the author's have communicated to him 

 facts and observations, and the loan of specimens of rare 

 species, relative to the subject of his work ; " and he earnestly 

 solicits a similar act of kindness on the part of any British 

 zoologist who may have it in his power to offer it." • 



Yarrell, W. 9 F.L.S., &c. : A History of British Fishes; com- 

 prising upwards of 900 pages, and upwards of 400 wood- 

 cuts, disposed in two volumes, whose joint price, in 8vo 

 size, is 21. Ss. ; in royal 8vo, 4/. 16s. 1836. 



This work is now finished: the last part, the 19th, in- 

 cludes the titlepages, preface, introduction, and general index. 



w So great has been the success in obtaining species either " 

 absolutely newly ascertained, or newly ascertained in relation 

 to our coast, " that this work contains a greater number of 

 species by one fourth than has yet appeared in any British 

 catalogue, with an extensive list of well authenticated locali- 

 ties and local names. Two hundred and twenty-six species 



