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For general Zoology the best books for beginners 
are, perhaps, as a general introduction, the Rev. 
J. A. L. Wood’s “ Popular Zoology,” full of excellent 
plates; and for systematic Zoology, Mr. Gosse’s 
four little books, on Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and 
Fishes, published with many plates, by the Christian 
Knowledge Society, at a marvellously cheap rate. 
For miscroscopic animalcules, Miss Agnes Catlow’s 
“Drops of Water” will teach the young more than 
they will ever remember, and serve as a good in- 
troduction to those teeming abysses of the unseen 
world, which must be afterwards traversed under 
the guidance of Hassall and Ehrenberg. 
For Ornithology, there is no book, after all, like 
dear old Bewick, passé though he may be in a 
scientific point of view. There is a good little 
British ornithology, too, published in Sir W. 
Jardine’s “ Naturalist’s Library,” and another by 
Mr. Gosse. And Mr. Knox’s “Ornithological 
Rambles in Sussex,” with Mr. St. John’s “ High- 
land Sports,” and “Tour in Sutherlandshire,” are 
the monographs of naturalists, gentlemen, and 
