POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS 



British Flowering Plants 



By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., etc. With 120 coloured plates, showing the 

 most important characters of each plant, and 119 illustrations in the text. 

 Cloth, 5^. net. 



" Altogether Mr. Kirby has given a capital general account of British Plant Life." — 

 Tribune. 



" This is an admirable volume." — Perthshire Courier. 



" A very beautiful little book, and one that is likely to be as useful as it is beautiful. 

 The size and shape of the volume make it just the thing for a lover of flowers to put in 

 his pocket on a holiday ramble." — Lloyd's News. 



** All who handle the book will be charmed by the large assortment of coloured plates. 

 Seldom, indeed, has it been our privilege to inspect such beauty of execution, combined 

 with such accuracy in form and colour." — Teacher. 



Mammals of the World 



By W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., etc. Author of "British Flowering 

 Plants." With an Introduction on Structure by W. Egmont Kirby, M.D. 

 With 30 full-page plates, drawn and coloured from Nature, and many text 

 illustrations. Uniform with " A Book of Birds." Cloth, 6s. net. 



In this work, which is the second volume in Sidney Appleton's Natural 

 History Books, Mr. W. F. Kirby has given a popular descriptive account of some 

 of the most interesting and representative mammals, and an account of the structure 

 of these animals has been contributed by Dr. W. Egmont Kirby. A special feature 

 of the volume is a series of thirty coloured plates giving accurate representations of 

 more than one hundred and sixty different species of animals. Among other figures 

 will be found an accurate delineation of the Okapi, the curious African animal 

 recently brought under the notice of European naturalists by Sir Harry Johnston. It 

 is hoped that the book will be useful as a handy book of reference, and also as an 

 introduction to the study of more advanced works on the subject. 



Minerals 



By Leonard J. Spencer, M.A. With 30 full-page plates, beautifully 

 executed in colours. 6s. net. {Ready Shortly. 



This important volume will contain an account of the general characters of Minerals, 

 their formation, properties, uses, and location. It will include descriptions of the 

 metallic ores, precious stones, various minerals of economic value, rock-forming minerals, 

 etc. The work will be illustrated in colours, and will contain thirty full-page plates 

 showing about two hundred figures which have been specially drawn and coloured for 

 this book from actual specimens. Among the illustrations will be shown examples of the 

 Native Elements, Sulphides, Haloids, Oxides, Carbonates, Sulphates, Phosphates, Silicates, 

 and Organic substances. All these will be fully described in the text, 



SIDNEY APPLETON, Publisher, 25 Bedford Street, LONDON 



