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on stone : and the whole pile of Natural History — fable, poetry, theory, and 

 fact — is stuck over witli quaint apophthegms and shrewd maxims, deduced for 

 the benefit of man from the contemplation of such tiny monitors as gnats and 

 moths. Altogether the book is a curious and interesting one — quaint and clever, 

 genial and well-informed." — Morning Chronicle. 



POPULAE BEITISH ENTOMOLOGY, comprising a familiar 



and teclmical description of the Insects most common to tlie 



British Isles. By Maria E. Catlow. In twelve chapters, 



each beinff the Entomoloorical lesson for the month. In one 



vol. royal 16mo, with sixteen coloured plates of figures. Price 



10*. U. 



" Judiciously executed, with excellent figures of the commoner species, for the 



use of young beginners." — Amiual Address of the President of the Entomological 



Society, 



" Miss Catlow's ' Popular British Entomology' contains an introductory chapter 

 or two on classification, w^hich are followed by brief generic and specific descrip- 

 tions in English of above 200 of the commoner British species, together with 

 accurate figures of about 70 of those described ; and will be quite a treasure to 

 auyone just commencing the study of this fascinating science." — Westminster 

 and Foreign Quarterly Review. 



POPULAR HISTORY OP MAMMALIA. By Adam White, 



P.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British 



Museum. With sixteen coloured Plates of Quadrupeds, &c. 



by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, F.L.S. Eoyal 16mo. 10^. M. 



" The present increase of our stores of anecdotal matter respecting every kind 



of animal has been used with much tact by Mr. White, who has a terse chatty 



way of putting down his reflections, mingled with that easy familiarity which 



every one accustomed daily to zoological pursuits is sure to attain. The book is 



proftisely illustrated." — Atlas. 



THE BRITISH PALAEOZOIC POSSILS, added by Professor 

 Sedgwick to the Woodwardian Museum. By Professor 

 M'CoY. In royal 4to, with numerous Plates. 



Part L, containing the Radiata and Articulata, is now ready. I65. 

 Part II., containing the Lower Palaeozoic Mollusca, is in the press. 



THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE; or, a Eirst Lesson in Geology. 

 By Dr. Mantell, E.R.S. Eighth Edition, considerably en- 

 larged. With four coloured plates, twenty-seven woodc\its, 

 and a Portrait of the Author. Square 12rao. 55. 

 " I have just procured a little work for my young pupils, a most delightful 

 introduction, entitled ' Thoughts on a Pebble, or a Yirsi Lesson in Geology,' by 

 Dr. Mantell, and I must request you to read it ; for although it does not consist 

 of more than thirty pages [increased in the pi'esent edition to upwards of a hun- 

 dred] it will expand to your view a new world that will astonish and delight 

 you." — Philosophy in Sport. 



