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Commencement of a New Series of Natural History 

 for Beginners. 



BRITISH BEETLES ; an Introduction to the study of our 



Indigenous COLEOPTERA. By E. C. RYE. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured 

 Steel Plates, comprising Figures of nearly 100 Species, engraved from Na- 

 tural Specimens, expressly for the work, by E. W. ROBINSON, and 11 

 "Wood-Engravings of Dissections by the Author, 10,?. 6d. [Ready. 



BRITISH SPIDERS ; an Introduction to the study of the 



ARANEIDJ; of Great Britain and Ireland. By E. F. STAVELEY. Crown 

 Svo, 16 Coloured Plates and Wood-Engravings, 10*. Gel. [Ready. 



BRITISH BEES; an Introduction to the study of the Na- 

 tural History and Economy of the Bees indigenous to the British Isles. 

 By W. E. SCHUCKARD. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-En- 

 gravings, 10*. 6d. [Ready. 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS; an Introduc- 

 tion to the study of our Native LEPIDOPTERA. By H. T. STAINTON. Crown 

 Svo, 16 Coloured Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10*. 6d. [In preparation. 



BRITISH FERNS : an Introduction to the study of the Ferns, 



LYCOPODS, and EQUISETA indigenous to the British Isles. With Chapters 

 on the Structure, Propagation, Cultivation, Diseases, Uses, Preservation, 

 and Distribution of Ferns. ByMARGARET PLUES. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured 

 Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10*. Qd. [Ready. 



BRITISH SEAWEEDS; an Introduction to the study of 



our Native Marine ALGJ;. By S. O. GRAY. Crown Svo, 16 Coloured 

 Plates, and Wood-Engravings, 10*. 6d. [In preparation. 



* # * A good introductory series of books on British Natural History for the 

 use of students and amateurs is still a desideratum. Those at present in use 

 have been too much compiled from antiquated sources ; while the figures, copied 

 in many instances from sources equally antiquated, are far from accurate, the 

 colouring of them having become degenerated through the adoption, for the 

 sake of cheapness, of mechanical processes. 



The present series will be entirely the result of original research carried to its 

 most advanced point ; and the figures, which will be chiefly engraved on steel, by 

 the artist most highly renowned in each department for his technical knowledge 

 of the subjects, will in all cases be drawn from actual specimens, and coloured 

 separately by hand. 



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