SOME PRESS OPINIONS 



OF 



THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY 



FIELD. — "The Cambridge Natural History series of volumes is one of very great 

 value to all students of biological science. The books are not intended for popular 

 reading, but for utilisation by those who are desirous of making themselves thoroughly 

 acquainted with the branches of zoology of which they treat. " 



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." 



ACADEMY. — "This great enterprise has now proceeded sufficiently far to be re- 

 garded as an achievement. The editors have aimed very high, and they have 

 succeeded. . . . Well conceived, carefully co-ordinated, and executed with the greatest 

 detail and completeness, the Cambridge Natural History is certain to rank high amongst 

 those gigantic scientific works to which, within the last half-century or so, the labours of 

 so many experts, each without hope of more glory than falls to a mere assistant, have 

 contributed." 



ATHEN^'EUlM. — "The series certainly ought not to be restricted in its circulation 

 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."' 



Mr. F. G. AFLALO in COUNTRY LIFE.— ''T\\& editors will, on the com- 

 pletion of the series, have the satisfaction of contemplating a work with which, lor 

 thoroughness and interest, no other of recent appearance can compare." 



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." 



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

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



DAILY NEIVS in a Review of Vol. X. — "A volume which, for the interest of 

 its contents and for its style and method of treatment, is not only worthy of its 

 predecessors, but may be regarded as one of the most successful of a brilliant series." 



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