NOW PUBLISHING, 



In Parts, Price Is., each, containing Four Coloured Plates, 



FERNS; BRITISH AND EXOTIC. 



Scientific and Popular Descriptions of all the Cultivated Species, with Instructions 



for their Management. 



BY E. J". LOWE, ESQ., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., Etc. 



Volumes I, III, and VI, with Fifty Plates, price 14?. each. 

 Volume II, with Sixty-six Plates, price 18s. Volume V, with Fifty-six Plates price 16*'. 



This Day is Published, 12mo. cloth, price 2s. 6d., 



A HANDY GUIDE TO SAFE INVESTMENTS; 



Forming a Popular and Practical Treatise upon the Nature and Character of Public 

 Securities; showing the several descriptions, with the modes of transacting business at the 

 Stock Exchange. 



BY GRESHAM OMNIUM. 



Account Days. 



American Securities. 



Annuities. 



Austrian Five per Cts. 



Bank Charters. 



Bank of England. 



Banks, Foreign. 



Banks, Joint-stock. 



Bank Post Bills. 



Belgian Two-and-a-half 

 per Cents. 



Belgian Four-and-a- 

 half per Cents. 



Bonds. 



Brazilian Debt. 



Brokers. 



Canada Debt. 



Chilian Bonds. 



Commission. 



Consols. 



Cuba Six per Cents. 



Danish Three per Cts. 



Danish Five per Cts. 



Debt, National. 



Dividend Days. 



Dutch Four per Cents. 



East India Bonds. 



Exchequer Bills. 



Executors. 



French Bank Shares. 



French Rentes. 



Funds, The. 



Greek Five per Cents. 



Guatemala Debt. 



Holidays. 



Land Warrants. 



Contents: — 



Life Annuities. 



Limited Liability. 



Loans. 



Long Annuities. 



Mexican Debt. 



Mines, Foreign. 



Mining Securities. 



Money Market. 



New Three per Cents. 



New Three-and-a-Half 



per Cents. 

 New Five per Cents. 

 Notes, Issue of. 

 Peruvian Bonds. 

 Portuguese Funds. 

 Preference Railway 



Shares. 



Power of Attorney. 

 Railway Bonds. 

 Railway Capital. 

 Railway Coupons. 

 Railways. 

 Railway Shares. 

 Russian Revenue. 

 Reduced Three per Cts. 

 Russian Securities. 

 Sardinian Investments. 

 Shares and Stocks. 

 Scrip. 



South Sea Stock. 

 Spanish Securities. 

 Speculating. 

 Stockbrokers. 

 Stock Exchange. 



Stock Fluctuations. 

 Stock Jobbing. 

 Stock, Purchase of. 

 Stock, Sale of. 

 Stocks, Rise and Fall of 

 Swedish Securities. 

 Technical Terms. 

 Three per Cent Consols. 

 Time Bargains. 

 Transfer. 

 Transfer Days. 

 Transfers, Private. 

 Treasury Commission- 

 ers. 

 Trustees. 



Turkish Securities. 

 Unclaimed Dividends. 



Designed for Use in Training Institutions, Commercial, Elementary, and Infant Schools, 

 Mechanics' Institutes, and Private Families. 



DEXTER'S CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Furnished with Specimens from the MINERAL, VEGETABLE, and ANIMAL KINGDOMS. 



Illustrative of the Imports, Exports, Productions, and Manufactures of Great Britain and her Colonies. 

 Price £i. 4s., in handsome Mahogany Case with Six Drawers and Folding Doors. 



Containing 



1. — Upwards of Three Hundred and Twenty different substances, consisting of more than One Hundred 

 Specimens of Minerals and Metals in the raw and manufactured form, shewing their practical application in 

 the Arts and Sciences. 



2. — Nearly One Hundred and Twenty Specimens of Vegetable Productions, including roots, juices, bark, 

 leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, stalks and stems of plants, illustrative of the vegetable kingdom, and descriptive 

 of the ways in which trees and plants are useful to man. 



3. — Upwards of Forty Specimens of Animal Substances, derived from the mammalia, from insects, reptiles, 

 fishes, and birds, intended to illustrate the various useful applications of animal substances to industrial purposes. 



4 — A Collection of Sixty Articles, manufactured from substances derived from the Vegetable and Animal 

 Kingdoms, consisting of different samples, intended to illustrate the manufacture of cotton, linen, paper, straw, 

 buttons, silk, wool, leather, and skins. 



In explaining the elements of botany, mineralogy, and of natural history in general, the intelligent educator 

 will find this Cabinet a valuable assistant, from its placing in his hands actual specimens of the subject before 

 him, while the study of geography may be rendered attractive and delightful by a display of the productions 

 of different portions of the globe. 



Two explanatory text-books accompany the Cabinet, giving a concise and clear definition of each article, the 

 sources whence obtained, the uses in the arts and sciences, and much general and statistical information. 



Three Cabinets are kept on sale, namely : — 



No. 1. Complete, price £i. 4s., as described above, in handsome mahogany case. 



No. 2. Price £3. 10s., with five drawers, and containing 280 substances, in mahogany case. 



No. 3. Price £3. 3s., containing the same number of articles as in No. 2, in imitation mahogany ease. 



Each Cabinet is furnished with the two Volumes, which arc sold separately as follows: — 

 MINERAL SUBSTANCES. Price 2s., cloth.— ANIMAL and VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. Price 2s., cloth. 

 By T. E. DEXTER, of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. 



LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



