IMPORTANT WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY 



/// the course of Publication, 

 I. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN, F.L.S., &c. 



I. Each Number will contain Four Coloured Plates, engraved on Steel by the first Artists, with Four Pages of 



'ce Three Shillings Coloured, or 



ith. 



iiig in all One Hundred Plates. The Species will be 



systematically arranged, agreeably to the classification of Lamarck, with the recently formed Genera of Deshayes, 



Sowerby, Parkinson, ccc, introduced into their respective places. Every Number will' comprise at least Forty Shells. 



3. At the end of the Work will appear a Stratigfaphical Index, on an entirely new plan, exhibiting at one view 



the whole British Species of Fossil Shells, with their Geological positions. 



i. j'jacn lNuniDer win contain x-our coloured nates, engraved on Steel by the hrst 

 Descriptive Letter- press ; together with the Localities in which they occur, &c, price 

 Two Shillings Plain. A Fasciculus will appear regularly on the first day of every month 



2. The Work will extend to Twenty-five Numbers, containing in all One Hundred 



II. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CONCHOLOGY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN, F.L.S., &c. 



SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 



1. Each Number will contain Four Coloured Plates, with complete Descriptions, Localities, &c. A Fasciculus 

 will appear regularly every month. Price Three Shillings Coloured, or Two Shillings Plain. 



2. The Work will extend to Fifteen Numbers, containing in all Fifty-eight Plates, with about Twelve Hundred 

 Figures of Shells, being Representatives of ALL the Species discovered up to the present time, including Marine, 

 Land, and Fresh Water; together with Illustrations of the Animals of nearly the whole Genera. The Plates are all 

 already engraved by Mr. W. H. Lizars, so that the Work will appear with the utmost regularity. 



3. This is the only Work which contains Representations of ALL the Species, and the only British Concho- 

 logy, in which the Animals have been introduced, and is sold at a price not a third of others which do not contain a 

 half of the Species, while the Engravings are executed in a much higher style of art. 



Opinions of the Press on the First Edition. 



" The Work is now completed, and forms a very handsome volume, alike creditable to the facile pencil of Captain Brown, and the matchless burin 

 ol Lizars. The volume contains no less than 59 plates, embracing 18S new species, and in all 1166 figures. Of the exquisite manner in which the 

 Shells are finished, we feel it impossible to convey an adequate idea; could we transport one of these splendid delineations to our columns, we should 

 require no words to enhance its value." — Observer. 



re talent and accuracy in the Drawings, we need hardly say that Mr. Lizars has i ngraving department in a tasteful 



and aide manner. The colouring is here so much chit , judiciously managed, that the specimens have many of the beauties of painting; 



..ad this work, we imagine, will go far to make the public think more highly of the Shell ? of the British Isles. "Scotsman. 



bi i works on the same subject, will be the best mode of showing the superior claims to attention which the present volume 



" The two best works which we have on out native I first, ' Montagu's Testacea Britannica,' quarto, published in 1803. ■ It onlv 



Irawn and etched by a lady, and very ini of this work is £6. (is. The Shells represented arc mostly 



ipecies. The second work to, ' Donovan's British Shells,' in octavo, published also in 1808, containing only 184 species, principally th< 



manner; price £7. 15s. So that it requires both these works ti i all the Shells known even in 



t heir time—the joint price amounting to £14. Is — and thenyou have only the small number of 1)89 species, ami these very indifferently done. 



" Brown's Illustration- are sold at £6. 16s. 6d. The ; Hghly finished, and, as we have said, beautifully coloured. The volume 



consists (,| ;,:; elegant quarto pi . ,f Shells, 135 of which are entirely new, and never before published; besides 14s, which 



have only appeared in the Transactions of different learned Sbclelibs."— .E<Wn&«r#)i Evening Pnst. 



|£g" This Work, originally published at £6. Mis. lid., will now cost only £2. 5s. with Six additional Plates. 



III. 



In tlie Press. <ni<l Speedily will Appear, 



THE ELEMENTS OF FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY, 



Illustrated by Figures, engraved on Steel, of ALL the known Genera; with their Generic Characters, and a complete 

 Description of their application to the elucidation of the various Geological periods. By Captain Thomas 

 Brown, F.L.S., &c. Royal 18mo. 



IV 

 Speedily will Appear, 



THE ELEMENTS OF CONCHOLOGY, 



BY CAPTAIN T ROWN, F.L.S., &e., 



Illustrated by Figures, engraved on Steel, of \LL icnera, Sub-Genera, and Sections, with their Generic 



Characters, very fully elucidated. 



Tin an ted i- that of Lamarck. tlition of all the New Genera which modern investigation 



I, as 



remliTia 



