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Works recently piiblished. 



In royal 16 mo, clothj price 18s. 6 d., 



Populär Physical Geology 



Illustrated oii a new and striking plan by Twenly Doiible- 



tiuted Lithograph Landscapes, each depiciing sonie 



special geological phenomenon, drawn and 



coluured l'ruin nature. 



By J. Beete Jukes. Esq., 



M.A., F. RS., M. R. I. A., 



Locai Director of the Geoiogical Survey of Irelaod and President of the 

 Geological Society oT Dublia. 



ijMr. Jukes has succeeded in composing one of 

 the most compact populär introduclions to Physical Geo- 

 logy that \ve have ever niet with." — Britannia. 



iiThe ilhistralions to Ihe «ork are of Ihe most 

 accurale as well as beautifui character, conibining the 

 skill of the artist with the knowledge of the Geologisl." 

 — Observer. 



„Mr. Jiikess „Populär Physical Geology" is pe- 

 culiarly remarkable l'or the skilful treatnienl ol his sub- 

 ject. The established facls and principles of Geology 

 are not only presented with freshness, but so clearly 

 enforced and illustrated as to impress the niind of the 

 Student, while he is slimulated to Observation by the 

 facility with which he is shown that Observation can 

 be niade." — Spectator. 



In 2 vols. 8\o. clolh. with Tinted Lithographs and 

 a new Map by l'eterniann, price 'i[ s.. 



Marrati ve 



the Voyage of 1l. M. S. Herald, 



under the Command of Captain Henry 

 Kellett, R.N., C. B., 



during the Vears 1845 — 51 ; being a Circumnavigation of 



the Globe and Three C'ruizes to Ihe Arclic Regions 



in search of Sir JOHN FEANKIIN, 



By 

 Berthold Seemann, rii. D., F. L. S., 



Member of the Imperial Acad. I\at. Curiosorum, Natu- 

 ralist of Ihe Expedition. 



Captain Kellett left England in 1845, and retur- 

 ned in 1851. During that linie he visiled Brazil, the 

 Falkland Islands, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, iNew Granada, 

 Me\ico, the Slrails of Juan de Fuca, Western Eskimo- 

 land, KanUchalka, the Sandwich Islands, China. Cali- 

 fornia, and \arious other couulries; he penetraied by 

 way of Behrings Strait further norihward Ihan any na- 

 vigator had done before hini and added a group of 

 Islands to the list of Arctic discoveries; he niade a 

 survey of an extensive portion of the coast of Western 

 America, and louched at places which had never before 

 beeil visited by any scientific expedilion. 



„With extensive knowledge in geography and its 

 coguate scienees, Dr. Seemann possesses a dose and 

 sober, but vivid style, which expresses his ideas not 

 only with clearness, but animation." — Spectator. 



„Dr. Seemann is always a lively and agreeable 

 conipanion, and has the merit of directing the atten- 

 tion of the general reader tu applied Natural Hislory, 

 rather than to queslions interesting only to the Student 

 of pure science. He now appears as the narralor of 

 an important circunina\igation of Ihe globe, and we 

 think has accomplished his lask with complete success." 

 -- Gardeners' Chronicie. 



!iDr. Seemann has registered the progress 

 vessel with pains-taking aecuracy, and his labuu.=, 

 will be fully appreeiaied be all future travellers to ihese 

 regions. The navigator, the naturalist and Ihe man of 

 science, will find a mine of Information here, which 

 caunot but be extensively useful. . . . The work inust 

 merit attention from the fact of its treating of Panama 

 and the Arctic Regions, both of which are of consi- 

 derable importance in the eyes of the public; and the 

 manner in which he has performed his task, and Ihe 

 valuable nature of the knowledge he communicales, 

 add to the natural interest springing from the nature 

 of his subject." — Daily News. 



„Dr. Seemann's is a good book, and will maintain 

 its place among the series of enterprising and scien- 

 tific journeys which the last lew years have contributed 

 so abundantly to swell." — Guardian. 



„It is due to the author to State, that he came to 

 his task under very serious dilficulties; and, with the 

 allowances which they demand. it niust be said that 

 Dr. Seemann has performed his task exiremely well." 

 — Athenaeum. 



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Populär History 



tlie Palms and tlieir Allies. 



With 20 landscapes in chromo-lithograpiiy. 



By 



Dr. BEETHOLD SEEMANN, F. L. S. 



Opinions of the Press. 

 iiTo his series of works on Populär Natural History 

 Mr. Lovell Keeve has added a „Populär History of 

 the Palms and their allies" (square 12 mo with 20 litho- 

 tinted plates). The author is Dr. Seemann, whose 

 personal acquainlance with tropical Vegetation enaiiles 

 him to speak with confidence respectiiig inuch of the 

 matter contained in (he volume; hesides which he in- 

 forms the reader that he has been very greatly assisted 

 by many distinguished bolanical travellers and olhers. 

 Wilh such advanlages, aided by a ready pen, Dr. 

 Seemann has produced a book, small if we look to 

 its cubical Contents, bul large if it is measnred by the 

 amount of valuable Information contained in it. Nor 

 is it an exaggeralion to say that it is Ihe first book 

 on Ihe subject from the band of one qualilied to deal 

 with it in its many aspecis. The beaiily of Palms is 

 known to every reader who cares lor descriptions of 

 tropica! scenery, from the child who lingers over the 

 tale of Paul and Virginia to the Philosopher who re- . 

 computes the slatislics of Humboldt; and now that 

 Kew has become the favorite resort of Londoners, 

 even the shop-boy who never heard oft St. Pierre or 

 the great Prussian physicist carries with him a vivid 

 Impression of their graceful forms, aller wandering 

 though Ihe delicious Palm grove there. As to 

 their ulilily, Palm oil, Palm brooms, Ratlans, Palm 

 corries, Coir ropes, Sago, Palmyra bow slaves, Vege- 

 table. Ivory have become objects as familiär as Dates, 

 Cocoa-nuts, and Betel-nuts have long been. To know 

 something correctiy ahout Ihiugs so common, however 

 rare their sources may he, has become an objecl of 

 great general interest — and one which we think Dr. 

 Seemann has satisfied. It is niore; it is now a sub- 

 ject of very great commercial importance, as. for exaniple 

 the evidence coUecleil by the author concerning Cohune 

 Oil sulficienlly proves.'' -Prof. Lindley in Gardeners' 

 Chronicie, Decbr. 29, 1855.) 



liOTell Reeve. 



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