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FIGURE PAGE 



70. A Wild Cherry leaf ........ 61 



71. A Crab Apple Leaf ..... . . .62 



72. An Aspen leaf . . . . . . . .62 



73. A Black Poplar leaf ........ 62 



74. A White Willow leaf . . . . . . . .63 



75. An Oak leaf . ... . . . . . .63 



76. A Wild Service leaf . . . . . . . . 63 



77. A White Beam leaf . . . . . . 64 



78. A White Thorn leaf . . - . .64 



79. A White Poplar leaf . ..... 64 



80. A Mountain Ash leaf . . . . . . . .65 



81. A Holly leaf . . . ' . . . . . 65 



82. A Scotch Pine shoot . . . . ... 66 



83. A Larch shoot .... . . . . .66 



84. A Yew shoot ......... 66 



85. A Common Mould . . . . . . . . 68 



86. A portion of a Mushroom bed ....... 69 



87. A common cultivated Mushroom . . . . . .70 



88. A blindworm . . . ... . . . .78 



89. The hatching of a Blindworm . . . . ... 79 



90. A Viper . . . . . . . " . . .80 



91. Photograph of a Smooth Snake (Coronella) . . . . .81 



92. A Viviparous Lizard . . . . . . . . 82 



93. A Hedgehog ......... 84 



94. The head of a male Wild Cat in the possession of Mr Alfred Heneage 



Cocks .......... 86 



95. A hybrid Stoat Ferret (fourth generation) ..... 87 



96. A hybrid Stoat Ferret. This specimen was born with a stump tail . . 87 



97. A Dormouse . . . . . . ' . .88 



98. A Squirrel ......... 89 



99. Mr A. Heneage Cocks with one of his stoat ferret hybrids ... 91 



100. The Skeleton of a Man and a Horse compared. From the specimens in the 



British Museum (Natural History). . . . 94 



101. A Thoroughbred Horse, "St Simon" ...... 97 



102. A Shire Horse, "Hiawatha" ....... 98 



103. Wild Horses . . . . ' . . .99 



104. A Hyacinth bulb cut through ....... 103 



105. A Hibernating Humble-Bee . . . . . .107 



106. The Edible Snail and its winter lid . . . . . .108 



107. The Nest of a Dormouse 109 



