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/. E. TAYLOR, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Flowers : Their Origin, Shapes, Perfumes, and Colours, Illus- 

 trated with 32 Coloured Figures by Sowerby, and 161 Woodcuts. 

 Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d. 



Contents 



The Old and New Philosophy of Flowers— The Geological Antiquity of Flowers 

 and Insects — The Geographical Distribution of Flowers— The Structure of Flowering 

 Plants — Relations between Flowers and their Phjsical Surroundings — Relations 

 between Flowers and the Wind — The Colours of Flowers — The External Shapes of 

 Flowers— The Internal Shapes of Flowers — The Perfumes of Flowers — Social Flowers 

 — Birds and Flowers— The Natural Defences of Flowering Plants. 



" This is an altogether charming book, full of wisdom, cheerful, simple, attractive, 

 and informed throughout with a high purpose. Its object is to place within reach of 

 the general public in an agreeable form the results of the most recent and compre- 

 hensive botanical research. The author is so bold as to ask why flowers were made, 

 and is not without means to answer the question reverently and truthfully. He 

 connects them by the aids that science supplies with the history of creation, and the 

 records of the rocks, and with the history of man, and the progress of the agricultural 

 and horticultural arts. He tells us how they are influenced by soil and climate, how 

 changed and multiplied by insects and other agencies, how their seeds are blown 

 about the world, and how by innumerable divine appointments it at last comes about 

 that the life of a man is environed and beautified with flowers. The work is rich in 

 the results of travel, and it happily connects the vegetable products of the globe with 

 the conditions that favour them and the wants they satisfy. It is therefore a book 

 for all ages, and for botanists and gardeners, as well as for such as rather too gladly 

 confess they know nothing about plants. We should like to see it on every 

 family table in the whole length and breadth of the United Kingdom." — Gardeners' 

 Magazine. 



The Aquarium : Its Inhabitants, Structure, and Management. 



Second Edition, with 238 Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



" Few men have done more to popularise the natural history science than the late 

 Dr Taylor. The work before us, while intended as a handbook to public aquaria, is 

 responsible for many attempts, successful and otherwise, at the construction of the 

 domestic article. The book is replete with valuable information concerning persons 

 and things, while the directions for making and managing aquaria are very clear and 

 concise. The illustrations are numerous, suitable, and very good." — Schoolmaster. 



"The ichthyologist, be it known, is not such a fearful or horrific 'sort of wild- 

 fowl ' as his name would seem to argue him. The prevalence of the breed, the extent 

 of its knowledge, the zeal of its enthusiasm, and the number of the aquaria it has 

 built for itself in town or country, are all part and parcel of that ' march of science ' 

 which took its impetus from Darwin and the ' Origin of Species.' Those who do not 

 already know that useful book, ' The Aquarium,' by Mr J. E. Taylor, Ph.D., F.L.S., 

 &c, should procure this new edition (the sixth). It forms a convenient handbook or 

 popular manual to our public aquaria. The aquarium, its inhabitants, its structure 

 and its management, are the author's especial care And with the help of well-known 

 works and a wide experience he has managed to put together a most praiseworthy 

 book." — Science Si/tings. 



Half- Hours in the Green Lanes. Illustrated with 300 Woodcuts. Fifth 

 Edition. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. 

 " A book which cannot fail to please the young, and from which many an older 

 reader may glean here and there facts of interest in the field of nature. Mr Taylor 

 has endeavoured to collect these facts which are to be recorded daily by an observant 

 country gentleman with a taste for natural history ; and he has attempted to put them 

 together in a clear and simp'e style, so that the young may not only acquire a love for 

 the investigation of nature, but may also put up (bj r reading this little book) an im- 

 portant store of knowledge. We think the author has succeeded in his object. He 

 has made a very interesting little volume, not written above the heads of its readers 

 as many of those books are, and he has taken care to have most of his natural history 

 observations very accurately illustrated." — Popular Science Review. 



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