PUBLISHED BY REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE. 



4. A CENTURY OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, selected 



from ' Curtis's Botanical Magazine/ consisting of a hun- 

 dred of those most worthy of cultivation, systematically 

 arranged, and illustrated with Figures and Dissections 

 chiefly executed by Mr. Fitch; the descriptions by Sir 

 WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, 'K.H., D.C.L., Director of 

 the Royal Gardens of Kew ; with copious remarks on their 

 culture and mode of treatment, by JOHN CHARLES LYONS, 

 Esq., of Mullingar, Ireland. 



These illustrations, now considerably advanced, will be published in 

 a superior style, in one complete, large-paper volume, size royal quarto ; 

 the descriptions are being newly written and their value will be much 

 enhanced by the addition of original practical information on their 

 mode of growth, by John Charles Lyons, Esq., including an intro- 

 duction to the culture and management of Orcludaceee generally. 



*** To be published complete in one volume, price 5Z. 5s. 



5. NATURAL HISTORY AND OSTEOLOGY OF THE 



DODO, SOLITAIRE, and other extinct Birds of the 

 Islands Rodriguez, Mauritius, and Bourbon. By H. E. 

 STRICKLAND, M.A., F.G.S., and A. G. MELVILLE, M.D. 

 EDIN., M.R.C.S. 



The interest which has always attached to that singular bird, the 

 Dodo, having been recently much increased by the discovery of evidence 

 which proves that each of the three islands, Mauritius, llodriguez, and 

 Bourbon, formerly possessed distinct species of birds of the same 

 anomalous family, it has been thought desirable to collect the scattered 

 facts and records, and publish a complete monograph of the present 

 state of our knowledge of the Didinee, in order to remove the many 

 erroneous statements which are current, and to restore these lost organ- 

 isms to their rank in the Natural System. 



The work will be illustrated by lithographic plates, executed in the 

 first style, exhibiting the integuments and bones of the Dodo and 

 Solitaire, together with fac-similes of all the authentic figures of those 

 birds given by contemporary authors, with many other illustrations. 



*** In one vol., size royal 4to., with numerous illustrations, price U. Is. 



