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GOULD'S BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. A synopsis of the Birds of Aus- 

 tralia, and the adjacent Islands. By John Gould, F. L. S. Containing 75 

 full-page plates, Colored by Hand, showing upwards of ijo species, 

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An exceptionally fine copy, hound from the original numbers as issued (in four parts), the 

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NATURALISTS LIBRARY. Edited by Sir William Jardine. A com- 

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 mo., with upwards of 1200 COLORED PLATES and numerous portraits of Nat- 

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BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. A history of North American Birds. By 

 S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land Birds. Illustrated by 64 



beautiful full-page, plates, containing j./j heads of each species, and jgj wood- 

 cuts. 3 vols. Quarto. Cloth. Perfectly new and fresh set. Boston, 1874. 

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This work was projected with the intention of making it fully adequate to the scientific 

 demands of the times, — an exhibit of North-American ornithology as nearly perfect as human 

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 Successfully carried out. The history has been recognized, in Europe and at home, as a work of 

 the highest scientific value, and has supplanted all others as an ornithological authority. 



Ferns and Flowering Plants of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt. A series 

 of 313 beautifully colored full-page engravings, in which are comprised figures 

 of 145S species, with explanatory text and indices. 6 vols. Square Svo. 

 Handsomely bound in extra cloth, gilt edges, ?iezv and fresh set. London, 1875. 

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The method of classification adopted in this work is that which is termed the Natural System , 

 in which the whole vegetable kingdom is divided into three great classes. English, rather than 

 Latin, terms have in all cases been used by the writer, so as to adapt the book to the use of the 

 unscientific. 



AGASSIZ' NATURAL HISTORY. Contributions to the Natural History 

 of the United States of America. By Louis Agassiz. Contents : Essay on 

 Classification, North-American Testudinata, Embryology of the Turtle, Acalephs 

 in General, Ctenophorae, Discophorse, Hydroidae. 4 vols. 4to, cloth. Boston, 

 1857-62. Reduced from $40.00 to $18.00. 



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