"The Editor of the Woburn Libraiy has recognised the ful! 

 value of the highest form of colour-printing by means of 

 photography. The Duke of Bedford has not given the name of 

 his chief seat to this Library without the determination to make 

 it worthy of the honour." — Daily News. 



THE WOBURN LIBRARY 



OF NATURAL HISTORY 



EDITED BY 



HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. 



President of the Zoological Society 

 Each in ciowa 4to, clotb gilt and gilt top, 12s. 6d. net 



THE purpose of this Libraiy is to provide a series of 

 Illustrated Books, of practical utility, on subjects touching 

 Country Life. Although popular in character, these volumes 

 will be at once accurate and reliable, and will contain sufficient 

 scientific data to fit them for their place as works of reference 

 in the library of every country house. Each volume will be 

 written by a well-known authority on the subject with which it 

 deals, and the whole Library will be under the supervision of 

 His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



AVERY important feature of this Library will be the large 

 number of beautiful Illustrations which each volume will 

 contain. For the most part these will be reproduced in colour, 

 and carefully printed on the best art paper ; but care will be 

 taken that each book shall be as light as possible to handle. 



IN these volumes, each of which will be complete in itself, 

 all the pedantry of science will be excluded, so that 

 imperfect knowledge may not be concealed under scientific terms. 

 They will not be merely popular gossip about scientific subjects, 

 but rather science expounded in popular language. In short, 

 while each volume will be scientifically accurate, it will not be 

 technically scientific, though where occasion arises appendices 

 will be added, containing the most up-to-date scientific cla.ssifica- 

 tion, etc., and all the scientific terms. 



I ^NDON : HUTCHINSON & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW 



