NEW BOTANICAL WORK, TO BE ISSUED MONTHLY. 

 This day is Published, tyo. I., (price 2s. Gd. Large, and \s. Gd. Small,) of 



THE BOTANIST, 



Conducted by B. MAUND,F.L.S., assisted by the REV. J.S. HENSLOW, M.A.,F.L.S. 



Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. 



Each number will contain four coloured plates, of the most admired Flowers, cultivated 

 in the Greenhouse, Stove, or open Garden. The drawings will be accurate.y executed 

 from nature, of the full size of the flowers, with the addition of dissections of the parts of 

 fructification, and outline miniatures of the entire plants. Generic and specific descrip- 

 tions will be accompanied by popular information on the History, Properties^ Habits, 

 Culture, and Geographical Distribution of the subjects figured. Also, a Botanical Dic- 

 tionary, illustrated by numerous cuts, will be written by Professor Henslow, expressly for 

 the work, and a portion of it will be given in each number till completed. The Natural 

 Orders of Plants will be illustrated in a familiar style, to introduce the reader, by easy 

 steps, to an intimate knowledge of those pleasing subjects, which hitherto may have been 

 superficially examined. 



The exertions of the Conductor, who has been before the public, nearly twelve years, 

 as author of the Botanic Garden, (a work which has afforded more gratification, and been 

 more the instrument of diffusing a taste for the flower garden, than any ever published,) 

 combined with the well-known talent of the Rev. Professor Henslow, and, that of one of 

 the first Lecturers in the Metropolis, will secure to the BOTANIST advantages, which, it 

 is presumed, have not hitherto been combined in the production of any similar work. Pre- 

 parations are making to produce the Typographical as well as the Illustrative parts, in a 

 style not to be excelled. 



London, Published by R. Groombridge ; Galignani, Paris ; Jackson, New York. 



Just published, to be continued Monthly, price, Ato. 2s. 6d., Royal Svo. 2s., 



No. III. OF 



THE NATURALIST, 



With a highly-finished coloured Engraving of the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus. 

 Conducted by B. Maund, F.L.S. & W. Holl, F.G.S., 



Assisted by several eminent scientific Men. 



Contents — Original Communications : Description of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus 

 — On the Moral Advantages of the Study of Nature— History of the Common Dipper, 

 (Cinclus aquaticm), by W. Mac Gillivray, A.M., &c, — On the Silurian and other Rocks 

 of the Dudley and Wolverhampton Coal-field, followed by a Sketch proving the Lickey 

 Quartz Rock to be of the same age as the Caradoc Sandstone, by R. I. Murchison, 

 F.G.S., — Notes of a Botanist, by J. Murray, F.L.S., — On the Circulation of the Inver- 

 tebrata — On the Nests of Birds-!_On the Habits of the Ring Pigeon (Columba palumbus, 

 Linn.) — The Swiftfoot — The Oscillaria Pharaonis — Reviews : A History of the Rarer 

 Species of British Birds, by T. C. Ey ton, Esq. ; The Ornithologist's Text Book ; British 

 Song Birds, by Neville Wood, Esq. ; Sir W. Jardine's Naturalist's Library; Entomology, 

 vol. iv — Foreign Periodicals: Archchiv fur Naturgeschichte, von Dr. Ar. Fr. Aug. 

 Wiegmann ; Isis, Encyclopiidische Zeitschrift, von Oken. 



London, published by R. Groombridge, Paternoster-row ; W. Curry and Co., Dublin ; 

 Why te and Co., Edinburgh; Galignani, Paris ; L. Haumann and Co., Brussels ; W. Jack- 

 son, New York. 



Published by R. GROOMBRIDGE, Panyer Alley, Paternoster Row; and 



G. RIDGE, Sheffield. ° 

 In Foolscap 8vo., illustrated by an engraved Frontispiece, price 3s. 6d., cloth, 

 THE ANGLER'S MANUAL; or PLY-FISHER'S ORACLE. With a 

 Compendium on Bottom Fishing. By JOHN TURTON, of Sheffield, 

 Yorkshire. 



In Foolscap 8vo., price 2s. cloth, 



THE BOTANIST'S MANUAL ; comprising a complete List of the British 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns, divided into the Linnean Classes and 

 Orders, according to the arrangement of Sir W. J. Hooker : designed prin- 

 cipally for the Out-door Convenience of Botanical Students and Amateurs, 

 as a Book of Entry for the discovery of Plants or Habitats ; and also a con- 

 venient Pocket Companion for persons engaged in collecting materials for 

 Local Floras. 



