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earnestly, and with the confidence which comes of experience, commend "Forms of 



Animal Life " as a thorough piece of work, and certainly the best book on Comparative 

 Anatomy in our language. — Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 



' It supposes and requires a certain amount of knowledge in the reader, but the vast 

 amount of compressed and clearly put information which it gives often in a new and 

 suggestive manner, will render it most valuable, indeed a necessity, to every somewhat 

 advanced student of biology.' — Journal of Anatomy and Physiology. 



Thesatirtts Rntomologicus Hopeiamis, or a De- 

 scription of the rarest Insects in the Collection given to the University 

 by the Rev. William Hope. By J. O. Westwood, M.A., Hope Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology. With 40 Plates^ mostly coloured. (Small folio, 

 half morocco, 7/. ioj".) 



Descriptive Astronojiry, A Handbook for the 



General Reader, and also for practical Observatory work. With 224 

 illustrations and numerous tables. By G. F. CHAMBERS, F.R.A.S. 

 (Demy 8vo., cloth, price 21s.) 



' There is much in this handbook to interest the general reader, while the practical 

 worker will find an invaluable mass of information on celestial subjects, besides arnple 

 references to astronomical authorities.' — Pall Mall Gazette. 



Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, 



By John PhillipS;, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Geology^ Oxford. 

 (8vo. cloth, il. IS.) 



' Throughout his book. Professor Phillips shows a grasp of facts and a mastery of the 

 method of inductive reasoning which must make the work a valuable model for the 

 geological student to follow.' — Saturday Re'view. 



' It has not often fallen to our lot to open a book devoted to science, and to derive 

 from it the large amount of pleasure, and the same sum of real instruction, which we have 

 found in the pages of this volume.' — Athenaeum. 



' A most important contribution to the knowledge of the ancient history of the earth, 

 and supplies a need which happens just at this time to be keenly felt . . . The book is in 

 every sense worthy of the high reputation of its author.' — Nature. 



A History of England, principally in the 



Seventeenth Century. By LEOPOLD VoN Ranke. Translated by 

 Resident Members of the University of Oxford, under the super- 

 intendence of G. W. KiTCHiN, M.A., and C. W. BOASE, M.A. 6 vols. 

 8vo. cloth, 3/. 3^. 



A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, By 



J. Clerk Maxwell, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Experimental Physics, 

 Cambridge. 2 vols. (8vo., cloth, i/. \\s. 6d.) 



' If Professor Maxwell had not already earned a place in the very front rank of the 

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In the Press, and shortly will be published. 



Plato: The Dialog^tes, translated into English, 



with Analyses and Introductions, by B. JOWETT, M.A., Master of 

 Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek. A new Edition in 

 Five Volumes. 



