IMPORTANT WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



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In the course of Publication, 

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



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



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

 Descriptive Letti'r-j)rcss ; together with the Localities in which they occur, &c., price Three Shillings Coloured, or 

 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 Phites. The Species will be j? 

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

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



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

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



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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 AVork 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. 



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Opinions of the Press on the First Edition. 



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

 of Lizars. The volume contains no less than 53 plates, embracing 135 new species, and in all 1156 figures. Of the exquisite manner in which thai 

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

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



"While there arc talent and accuracy in the Drawings, we need hardly say that Mr. Lizars has executed the engraving department in a tasb 

 and able manner. The colouring is here bo much elaborated, and so judiciously managed, that the specimens have many of the beauties of painting|l 

 and this work, we imagine, will go far to make the public think more liighly of the Shells of the British Isles." — Scotsman. 



" A slight glance at other works on the same subject, will be the best mode of showing the superior claims to attention which the present volumtl 

 po«esse«. I 



" The two best works which we have on our native Conchology are, first, ' Montagu's Testacea Britannica,' quarto, published in 1803. It onln 

 contains 205 specii-s, drawn and etched by a lady, and very indifferently executed ; the price of this work is £6. 69. The Shells represented arc mtntij 

 minute species. The second work is, ' Donovan's British Shells,' in octavo, published also in 1803, containing only 164 species, principtilly the la 



shells engraved in a stiff and slight manner; price £'. 1.59. So that it requires both these works to be possessed of all the Shells known even utl 



their time — the joint price amounting to £14. is. — and then you have oiJy the small number of 389 species, and these very indifferently done. 1 



"Brown's Illustrations are sold at £6. 16s Cd. The tngravings arc /ii<;/i/i/ ^nisAcrf, and, as we have said, beautifully coloured. The rolumsl 

 eoniiits of 53 elegant quarto plates, containing 1156 figures of Shells, 135 of which are entirely nctr, and never before published; besides 148, whichj 

 haTe only appeared in the Transactions of different learned Societies." — Edinburgh Evening Post. 



This Work, originally published at £6. I6s. 6d., will now cost only £2. 5s. with Six additional Plates. 



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In the Press, and Speedili/ n-ill 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 apj)lication to the elucidation of the various Geological periods. By Captain Thomas 

 Brown, F.L.S., &c. Royal l8mo. 



IV. 



Speedili/ vill Appear, 



THE ELEMENTS OF CONCHOLOGY, 



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



Illustrated bv Figures, engraved on Steel, of ALL the known Genera, Sub-Genera, and Sections, with their Generic 

 Characters, very fully elucidated. 



The arrangement adopted is that of Lamarck, with the addition of all the New Genera which modern investigation 

 has rendered necessary. 



