THE GREAT BARRIER REEF OF AUSTRALIA. 



W. Saville-Kent, Photo. 



ILT.TJSTEATION FBOM "THE GEEAT BAEEIEE REEF op AUSTEALH." 



EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 



ON 



MR. SAVILLE-KENT'S RECENT BOOK 

 "THE GREAT BARRIER REEF OF AUSTRALIA" 



(PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. W. H. ALLEN & Co., LIMITED, LONDON). 

 Super-royal Quarto (13J x 10), containing 16 Chroma and 48 Whole-page Plates in Photo-mezzotype. Net Price 4-. 4-S. 



TIMES. 



The sumptuous volume entitled, " The Great Barrier Reef of Australia : Its 

 Products and Potentialities," by "W. Saville-Kent, F.L.8., P.Z.S., &c., will be 

 interesting primarily to zoologists and naturalists in general, but it is not with- 

 out attractions for those who concern themselves with the commercial interests 

 of Australia. It contains an exhaustive " account with copious coloured and 

 photographic illustrations of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl shell, 

 beche-de-mer, and other fishing industries and the marine fauna of the Australian 

 Great Barrier region." The illustrations are very skilfully executed and very 

 interesting in themselves, and the letterpress consists of a series of elalx>rate 

 monographs on the natural features and products of this wonderful region. . . 

 Mr. Saville-Kent's chapter on the commercial potentialities of the reef is a 

 veritable romance of the sea, and his whole work is a labour of love and 

 enthusiasm. 



SATURDAY REVIEW. 



This is a sumptuous book : a large quarto volume, illustrated by no less 

 than forty-eight plates in photo-mezzotype and sixteen in chromo-lithography. 

 Such a complete study of a coral reef has never before been published. It deals 

 not only with the natural history of the Groat Barrier Reef, but also with 

 the marine industries of that region, which are of no small importance to the 

 colony of Queensland. . . . Mr. Saville-Kent's photographs and descriptions 

 give a wonderfully vivid idea of these strange "toilersof the sea" in every respect 

 but colour, and that the chromo-lithographs enable us to imagine. . . Among 

 these delightful pictures it ia difficult to single out any for special praise. . . 

 The book is so full of curious and interesting matter that it is hard to know 

 where to stop and when to put it down. Mr. Saville-Kent has brought a coral 

 reef and its wonders nearer to naturalists who cannot wander far from the shores 

 of colder regions than anyone hitherto has succeeded in doing. 



NATURE. 



Coral and coral reefs are likely to become additionally popular from the 

 publication of a really magnificent book entitled " The Great Barrier Reef of 

 Australia: Its Products and Potentialities." This work .... presents us 

 with what is emphatically an edition de tuxt. Of large size, its pages teem with 

 most beautiful coloured illustrations of the life of the reef, and with photographic 

 reproductions of its 'scenery. Nothing finer in the way of book-illustration has 

 come under our notice, and the illustrations will be all the more welcome to 

 naturalists, in that they reproduce the characteristics of the Great Barrier with 

 absolute fidelity, to which the word-painting of a Ruskin would be wholly 

 unequal. . . . Mr. Saville-Kent's book contains a series of nature-pictures 

 of the corals such as has never before been submitted to the scientific world, 

 and a glance at his illustrations does more to familiarise one with the phases 

 and aspects of the reef and its life than pages of written description. 



MORNING POST. 



In thus foreshadowing possible sources of wealth, and in presenting this 

 luxuriously fashioned account of the Great Barrier Reef and its products, Mr. 

 Saville-Kent has rendered eminent service alike to the province of Queensland 

 and the cause of scientific progress and knowledge. 



SCOTSMAN. 



It is certain that since the appearance of Mr. Darwin's monograph on Coral 

 Reefs no contribution of such importance has been made to the literature of this 

 interesting department of physical science, . . . It is certain that by bring- 

 ing his researches and collections so fully within reach of students as Mr. Saville- 

 Kent has done by the production of this magnificently appointed volume he has 

 rendered natural science a service which it would be difficult to over-estimate. 

 The work will always be a first authority on its subject, and an indispensable 

 book of reference for all who wish to have views of their own upon coral reefs. 



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