RAY SOCIETY, 



ESTABLISHED IN 1844, FOB, THE PUBLICATION OF WORKS ON 

 NATURAL HISTORY. 



RE-AEKANGEIVIENT OF THE PAST PUBLICATIONS. 



The Council having determined to re-arrange the books issued in past 

 years, beg to call attention to the following plan. The books of any of 

 the years may be obtained by a subscription of One Gruinea for that year. 



Year. Title of Book. Subscription. 



1848.— Reports on Zoology and Botany for 1844, 1847, and 1849, 8vo. 



3voIs £1 1 



1849. — Letters of John Ray. Baird's British Entomostraca, 8vo. 2 vols.... 1 1 

 1850. — Parts IV and V of Alder and Hancock's British Nudibranchiate 



MoUusca, 4to 110 



1851. — Leighton's British Lichens. Braune's Rejuvenescence in Nature, &c., 



8vo. 2 vols 



1852. — Agasssiz and Strickland's Bibliographia, 8vo. Vols. I and II .... 



1853. — Darwin's Cirripedes, 8vo. 2 vols 



1854. — Agassiz and Strickland's Bibliographia, 8vo. Vols. Ill and IV . 

 1855. — Parts VI and VII of Alder and Hancock's British Nudibranchiate 



Mollusca, 4to 1 1 



In 1856, the Council commenced the publication of a NEW SERIES of Works, of 

 which the following have been published : 



For 1856, Professor Allman on the British Fresh-water Polyzoa. 

 For 1857, Professor Williamson on the British Fornianifera. 



Professor Huxley's Work on the Oceanic Hydrozoa is in the Press, aiid will be dis- 

 tributed to Subscribers for 1858. 



The following are amongst tlie Works which the Council have already engaged to 

 publish in succeeding years : 



A Supplement and Index to the Bibiio- 



A Monograph of the British Araneidae, by 

 J. Blackwall, Esq. 4to. With plates. 



A Monograph of the British species of 

 Spongiadas, by J. S. Bowerbank, ll.d., 

 F.R.s. With plates. 



General History of Foraminifera, by Dr. 



iphy. Edited by Professor Busk, 



F.R.S. 8vo. 



On the Reproduction of the Higher Cryp- 



togamia, by Professor Hoflfmeister. 



Translated by F. Currey, Esq. With 



Carpenter, f.r.s. 4to. With plates. ! plates 



The Travels of Linnaeus in West Gothland, j A complete edition of tlie Works of the 



translated by G. B. Lewin, Esq., m.a. | late Robert Brown, edited by J. J. 



8vo. ' Bennet, Esq. 



*^* Every Subscriber of One Guinea is entitled to one copy of every book published bi 

 the Society during the year to which his Subscription relates. 



The Council will still undertake to supply complete Sets of their Works to Sub- 

 scribers from the commencement. 



By order of the Council, 



EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D., 

 8^ Saville Row, W., Secretary. 



March, 1859. 



