8 W. H. Allen & Co.'s General Catalogue. 



ALLEN'S 



NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. 



Edited by R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D., F.L.S., Ac. 



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. R. BOWDLER SHARPE, of the British Museum, whose long and 

 honourable connection with that Institution, coupled with his experience 

 of the Editorship and publication of many of the most important of modern 

 works on Natural Science, entitle him to be considered 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. TRAQUATR, 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 utilized 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. KEULEMANS and other leading 

 artists of the day have been secured for the illustration of those forms of 

 animal life which it has been found necessary to depict, in order to bring 

 the present work up to the standard of Modern Science. 



The volumes will be published at the popular price of 6s. Each volume 

 containing about 320 pages of letterpress, together with from 20 to 40 

 coloured plates. 



The volumes now issued consist of : 



A HANDBOOK TO THE BIRDS*OF GREAT BRITAIN, Vol. I., 



by R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D., Zoological Department, 



British Museum ; 



A HANDBOOK TO THE MARSUPIALIA AND MONOTREMATA, 

 by R. LYDEKKER, F.L.S. ; 



and will be followed by 

 MONKEYS, by H. O. FORBES, F.R.G.S. * 



BUTTERFLIES (with special reference to British species), by 

 W. F. KIRBY, F.L.S. 



London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 



