THE STANDARD 

 NATURAL HISTORY 



FROM AMOEBA TO MAN 



EDITED BY 



W. p. PYCRAFT, F.L.S. 



WITH 12 COLOUR PLATES 

 AND OVER 900 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



" The Standard Natural History " is popularly written 

 in the best sense of the word, and has at the same time 

 a weight of authority behind it such as no work of its 

 kind has had in recent years. 



The Editor, Mr. W. P. Pycraft, F.L.S., of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) has brought together many 

 distinguished authors from among his colleagues at 

 the British Museum, each being an acknowledged 

 authority on the group on which he writes. 



The volume begins with Amoeba, the simplest of 

 living animals, and ends with the forerunners of Man. 

 Herein the lover of the countryside and those who 

 desire to gain a clear insight into the meaning of what 

 Huxley called the comfortable word " Evolution " 

 will find a wealth of deeply interesting information of 

 unimpeachable accuracy. 



Complete in One Volume. 



