EXTRACTS FROM OPINIONS OF THE PRESS (Continued). 



CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. 



The most striking feature of Mr. Saville-Kenfs magnificent monograph on 

 " The Great Barrier Reef of Australia " is the wonderful series of photographic 

 plates which illustrate in a war n.'i <T l>,.f,>n> attempted the extraordinary variety 

 ,,l -1m,.,. and Iwauty of form which corals present. It almost takes away our 

 breath to be suddenly shown one of these plates > we feel that we are looking at 

 the thing itself, and we are lost in admiration at the skill of the photographer 

 and the care of the publisher which have combined to produce these results. 



STANDARD. 



The old naturalist probably never dreamt of the world having to welcome so 

 sumptuous a monograph as that which Mr. Saville-Kent has issued. For not 

 only is it all that its title claims an exhaustive account of the great coral reef 

 which stretches along the Queensland coast but in addition it forms a very 

 admirable history of the marine resources of the Colony with which the author 

 was 80 honourably connected as Commissioner of Fisheries. Nothing seems to 

 be omitted, and everything is illustrated in the most beautiful manner by forty- 

 eight plates, in which photo-mezzotypo appears at its best, and sixteen chromo- 

 lithographs from the pencil of the accomplished zoologist whose services to 

 science have been so long and so varied. Altogether, a work more satisfactory, 

 from an artistic and a scientific point of view has seldom come before us. 



WEST AUSTRALIAN. 



Mr. Saville-Kent's book on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia is truly 

 a monumental work, and is an important contribution to both science and 

 art. . . . The book, which is a veritable Mition de luxe, and inspires 

 admiration on the part of the most casual individual who may pick it up, 

 compels the interested attention of the reader. It is as superb a specimen 

 of the printer's, photographer's and publisher's art as it has been our good 

 fortune to see, and we can well believe that it succeeded in eliciting the special 

 commendation of Her Majesty the Queen, who was graciously pleased to 

 accept a copy from its author. 



DAILY NEWS. 



It is to this marvellous feature of the ocean on the eastern coast of the 

 Australian continent that Mr. W. Saville-Kent has devoted the magnificent 

 quarto volume with its numerous coloured and photographic illustrations. . . 

 Mr. Saville-Kent is, in the first place, a naturalist, and none who are acquainted 

 with his great " Manual of the Infusoria," will need to be told that he has gone 

 about his herculean task with inexhaustible industry and zeal, and has produced 

 it work unique of its kind and little likely to be superseded unless it be by future 

 editions embodying further researches by the same indefatigable explorer and 

 student of nature. It would be impossible to convey to a reader who has not 

 examined this massive volume an adequate notion of the matter of its chapters, 

 or of the singular beauty and interest of its plates, coloured and otherwise, after 

 photographs and drawings. 



FIELD. 



One of the most magnificent that was ever published. Too much praise can 

 hardly be bestowed upon the illustrations, which are mainly original photo- 

 graphs of the largest quarto size, displaying the beauties of the corals and other 

 animals constituting these marvellous structures with a degree of accuracy 

 which has never been even attempted. 



THE AUSTRALASIAN. 



A great work on a great subject. . . . Only the perfection to which the 

 photographic and chromo-lithographic arts have been brought could have ren- 

 dered possible the production of such a really superb book as Mr. Saville-Kent's 

 "Great Barrier Reef of Australia," the scientific value of which is so largely 

 enhanced by the number and beauty of its illustrations. . . . The book is 

 one which whether viewed as a scientific treatise on a fascinating subject, or as 

 a contribution to our knowledge of the economic resources of that great 

 colony, or as a work of typographical and illustrative art, is entitled to 

 unqualified praise. 



BOOKSELLER. 



One of the most striking publications of the hour, if not the most imposing 

 of all. 



DAILY CHRONICLE. 



No praise could be too high for this magnificent work. . . . The text is 

 extremely interesting, and written throughout in a fresh and lively style, 

 which is too often not tbe case with works containing a similar amount of 

 solid information. 



LA NATURE. 



M. Saville-Kent qui, pendant pres de huit annees, a occup<5 le poste 

 d'inspecteur des pecheries de la Grande-Barriere, a fait sur celle-ci une aerie 

 d'observations qu'il a reunies dans une magniflque publication. Ce livre, 

 qui paraitra sous peu, est orne de photogravures et de planches coloriees qui 

 en font un veritable objet d'art ; helas '. quand verrons-nous de pareils livres 

 en France ? A 1' Stranger, quand il s'agit de science, on trouve toujours les 

 bourses largement ouvertes. Que les choses sont differentes chez nous '. 



NOTTS GUARDIAN. 



This magnificently illustrated and finely got-up volume, though treating 

 its subject on scientific lines, is written in so lucid a style that it can be 

 read with pleasure and appreciation by any ordinarily well-educated reader. 

 . . . It is impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of the beauty 

 and delicacy of these photo-mezzotype plates, and of the wide field which 

 they cover. The subjects range from photographs of coral specimens and coral 

 growths to views of reefs, islets and islands, from an illustration of a cultivated 

 oyster bank to hurricane-stranded coral masses and wrecked ships, from groups 

 of pearls to representations of the various species of bche-de-raer and of the 

 many and odd kinds of fishes which swarm in the waters of the Great Reef. 

 Mr. Saville-Kent has, indeed, by the aid of the camera, placed at the disposal 

 of scientists an invaluable mass of observations, and enabled the stay-at-home 

 naturalist almost to realise what Mr. Saville-Kent tells his readers was a day- 

 dream of his own, namely, to see these wonderful coral organisms growing 

 in their native seas. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



The Great Banier Coral Reef of Australia is one of the wonders of the 

 world, and the work under our notice is in every way worthy of such a subject. 

 The naturalist will find in its pages a wealth of scientific fact gathered by a 

 master-hand, and the ordinary individual under its guidance may wander in 

 scenes of beauty and wonder hitherto unknown to him. Such a work, from 

 the pen of such a scientist as the author, is an important contribution to 

 British literature. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A MANUAL OF THE INFUSORIA, 



A descriptive Monograph of the FLAGELLATE, CILIATE and TENTACULIFEROUS PROTOZOA. 

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