6 LIST OF WORKS. 



was only last January twelvemonths that the Doctor arrived in Calcutta. That he 

 should have ascended the Himalaya, discovered a number of plants, and that they 

 should be published in England in an almost UNEacALLED style of magnificent 

 ILLUSTRATION, in Icss than eighteen months— is one of the marvels of our time." — 



29. THE RHODODENDRONS OF SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. Secofid 



Series. By Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. Edited by Sir 

 W. J. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. In handsome imperial folio, with ten 

 plates. Price 25^. coloured. 



30. THE RHODODENDRONS OF SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. Third and 

 concluding Series. By Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. 

 Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. In handsome imperial 

 folio, with ten plates. Price 25,y. colom'cd. 



31. POPULAR BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY; comprising a familiar and 



technical description of the Birds of the British Isles. By P. H. 



Gosse, Author of ' The Ocean,' ' The Birds of Jamaica,' &c. In twelve 



chapters, each being the Ornithological lesson for the mouth. In one 



vol. royal 16mo, with twenty plates of figiu'es. Price 10*. Q)d. coloured. 



" To render the subject of ornithology clear, and its study attractive, has been the 



great aim of the author of this beautiful little volume. . . It is embellished by upwards 



of seventy plates of British birds beautifully coloured." — Morning Herald. 



32. POPULAR BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY; comprising a familiar and 

 technical description of the Insects most common to the British Isles. 

 By Maria E. Catlow. In twelve chapters, each being the Entomo- 

 logical lesson for the month. In one vol. royal 16mo, with sixteen 

 plates of figures. Price 10.y. (Sd. coloured. 



" Judiciously executed, with excellent figures of the commoner species, for the use 

 of young beginners." — Annual Address of the President of the Entomological Sucieti/. 



" Miss Callow's ' Popular British Entomology ' contains an introductory chanter or 

 two on classification, which are followed l)y brief generic and specific descriptions in 

 English of above 200 of the commoner British species, together with accurate figures 

 of about 70 of those described ; and will be quite a treasure to any one just commencing 

 the study of this fascinating science." — Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review. 



33. THE DODO AND ITS KINDRED; or, the History, Affinities, and 



Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the 

 Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. Strickland, 

 Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S.; and A.G.Melville, M.D., M.R.C.S. 

 One vol. royal quarto, with eighteen plates and numerous wood illustra- 

 tions. Price 21*. 

 " The labour expended on this book, and the beautiful manner in which it is got up, 



render it a work of great interest to the naturalist It is a model of how such 



subjects should be treated. We know of few more cla])orate ami careful pieces of com- 

 parative anatomy than is given of the head and foot by Dr. Melville. The dissection is 

 accompanied by lithographic plates, creditable alike to the artist and the printer." — 

 Athenaeum. 



