SHELLS 



VOLUME III 

 Molluscs and Brachiopods. 

 By the Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., A, E. Shiplky, M.A., and F. R. C. Reed, M.A. 

 TIMES. — "There are very many, not only among educated people who take 

 an interest in science, but even among specialists, who will welcome a work of 

 reasonable compass and handy form containing a trustworthy treatment of the 

 various departments of Natural History by men who are familiar with, and 

 competent to deal with, the latest results of scientific research. Altogether, to 

 judge from this first volume, the Cambridge Natural History promises to fulfil all 

 the expectations that its prospectus holds out." 



FIELD.— ''^6 know of no book available to the general reader which affords 

 such a vast fund of information on the structure and habits of molluscs." 



KNOWLEDGE. — " If succeeding volumes are like this one, the Cambridge 

 Natural History will rank as one of the finest works on natural history ever 

 published." 



ATHENjEUM. — "The series certainly ought not to be restricted in its circula- 

 tion to lecturers and students only ; and, if the forthcoming volumes reach the 

 standard of the one here under notice, the success of the enterprise should be 

 assured." 



INSECTS AND CENTIPEDES 



VOLUME V 



Peripatus. By Adam Sedgwick, M. A., F.R.S.—Myriapods. ByF. G.Sinclair, 

 M. A.— Insects. Part I. By David Sharp, M.A. Cantab., M.B. Edin., 

 F.R.S. 



FIELD. — "Although written for the student and the specialist, the book is not 

 the less adapted to allnitelligent readers who wish to make themselves thoroughly 

 acquainted with the habits, structure, and the modern classification of the animals 

 of which it treats. To such it cannot be recommended too strongly."^ 



SCIENCE GOSSIP. — "'Every library, school, and college in the country should 

 possess this work, which is of the highest educational value." 



Prof. RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.H.S., F.C.S., in his Presidential Address to the 

 Entomological Society of London, said : — "The authors of this volume are certainly 

 to be congratulated upon having furnished such a valuable contribution to our litera- 

 ture. When its successor appears, and I will venture to express the hope that this 

 will be at no very distant period, we shall be in possession of a treatise on the 

 natural history of insects which, from the point of view of the general reader, will 

 compare most favourably with any similar work that has been published in the 

 English language." 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY 3IAGAZINE.—" We venture to think the 

 work will be found indispensable to all who seek to extend their general knowledge 

 beyond the narrowing influence of exclusive attention to certain orders or groups, 

 and that it will take a high position in ' The Cambridge Natural History ' series." 



INSECTS— Part II 



VOLUME VI 



Hymenoptera contimied (Tubulifera and Aculeata), Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. 



Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Anoplura. 



By David Shakp, F.R.S. 

 SATURDAV PEVIEJV.—"'Dv. Sharp's treatment is altogether worthy of the 

 series and of his own high scientific reputation. But in a work of this sort it is 

 not only necessary that information should be accurate, but also that it shall be 

 presented to the eye, so far as illustrations and printing are concerned, in such a 

 way as to render its matter as easily intelligible as possible, and readily usable 

 for purposes of reference. Under both these heads we have nothing but commenda- 

 tion for Mr. Sharp's treatise. The illustrations are indeed beautiful, and the use 

 of the heavy type for the headings of the various sections and leatling paragraphs 

 materially helps the reader in the progress of his study. Certainly this is a book 

 that should be in every entomologist's library." 



