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ALLEN'S 



NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. 



The extraordinary favour which Jardine's Naturalist's Library has 

 enjoyed during the last fifty years, has induced the proprietors of 

 the copyright to issue a series of volumes, written by some of the 

 most eminent naturalists of the day, under the title of "Allen's 

 Naturalist's Library. " 



The Publishers have secured for the Editorial work the services of 

 Dr. K. BOWDLER SHARPE, of the British Museum, whose long and 

 honourable connection with that Institution, coupled with his experi- 

 ence of the Editorship and publication of many of the most impor- 

 tant of modern works on Natural Science, entitle him to be con- 

 sidered one of the fittest men in England for the task. 



The Editor has obtained the co-operation of the following eminent 

 naturalists : 



MR. R. LYDEKKER, M.A. (Mammalia), 

 MR. H. O. FORBES (Mammalia and Birds), 

 MR. W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT (Birds), 

 MR. W. F. KIRBY (Insects), 

 PROFESSOR R. H. TRAQUAIR, F.R.S. (Fishes), 

 while the Editor undertakes several of the Ornithological volumes. 



Over 1,000 steel-plate engravings, many of them by the most 

 eminent artists of the time, will be utilised for the purposes of the 

 present work, and will be produced in the highest style of modern 

 chromolithography, in addition to which the services of Mr. Keule- 

 mans and other leading artists of the day have been secured for the 

 .illustration of those form of animal life which it has been found 



