THE REV. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 

 EXTINCT MONSTERS. 



A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE LARGER FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE. 



By the Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 



With numerous Illustrations by J. SMIT and others, and a Preface by 

 Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S. Demy 8vo, 12s. 



Black and "White says: " M. Cuvier's vast and splendid knowledge of existing 

 beasts and birds enabled him to reconstruct from a fossil skull or vertebra, sometimes from 

 nothing but a single tooth, the long extinct creature in its true semblance as it had lived 

 to clothe it with flesh and skin, and show it in imagination, in the haunts in which it lived 

 and moved. This, which Baron Cuvier did in graphic description of great scientific and 

 literary beauty, Mr. Hutchinson, in his work on ' Extinct Monsters,' has done popularly 

 and done learnedly, and with the accompaniment of many most admirable illustrations. 

 .... This learned, interesting, and popular book." 



The National Observer says : " Mr. H. N. Hutchinson, in ' Extinct Monsters,' 

 has produced a piece of natural history that is far more amusing than most novels, and as 

 full of instruction as a book of its size can well be ; it is illustrated with many diagrams, and 

 with five and twenty plates, the work of Mr. J. Smit, whose excellence is vouched for by 

 no less an authority than Dr. Henry Woodward ; and to the unscientific eye they are 

 certainly graphic and spirited." 



-CHARLES DIXON'S WORKS. 



THE BIRDS OP OUR RAMBLES: A COMPANION FOR 

 THE COUNTRY. By CHARLES DIXON. With Illustrations by A. T. 

 ELWES. Crown 8vo, 7-r. 6d. 



The Saturday Review says: "Mr. Dixon's book is capital reading. In a series 

 of rambles he discourses in a genial style of the birds of marsh or down, ot hedgerow or 

 woods, of fresh water-ways or salt, of mountain or moor, and shows an acquaintance with 

 bird-life no less extensive than the field of observation he investigates. Altogether, his 

 volume is an excellent companion for the dweller or sojourner in the country. The descrip- 

 tive table appended to each ' ramble ' is a very useful feature of his volume. We are par- 

 ticularly struck by the accuracy of his definition of the calls or ' alarm notes' of birds,' a 

 subject that has caused many a good naturalist to go wrong, through a defective ear, or 

 insufficient study." 



IDLE HOURS WITH NATUBE?* By CHARLES 



DIXON. With Frontispiece, crown 8vo, ^ *** 



Black and White says. "The title of Mr^RnaJes Dixon's 'Idle Hours with 

 Nature ' is a somewhat exasperating misnomer. ">9rt$*Utfc om being idle, he is one of the 

 busiest observers of nature since VVhite of ^JborneVujjrcl!; or the modern White, Richard 

 Jefferies. . . . His book is profoundly interestin'^.1sif enters into the minds and moods 

 of the creatures of the air, large and small, and rtaswffrom his observations. Mr. Dixon 

 contends that his studies have an ethical value b"e>*nd their scientific one. There can be 

 no doubt about it they take us out of ourselves." 



ANNALS OP BIRD LIFE. A YEAR-BOOK OF BRITISH ORNI- 

 THOLOGY. . By (3HARLES DIXON. With Illustrations by C. 

 WHYMPER. Crown 8vo, js. 6d. 



The Speaker ,says: "Delightful book. ... In this volume five or six chapters are 

 devoted, in turn, to spring, summer, autumn, and winter ; and everywhere, without thrust- 

 ing upon us the dry details of science, or the jargon of the schools, a minute and pleasing 

 description is given of the way of biids, their migration, and the gipsy kind of life they 

 lead." 



THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE 

 AVIAN SEASON-FLIGHT TO LAW. By CHARLES DIXON. Crown 

 8vo, 6s. 



The Tirn.es says : "Mr. Charles Dixon, than whom, perhaps, no more scientific orni- 

 thologist exists, formulates a theory to account for a phenomenon which has hitherto 

 refused to yield up its secret. He first dismisses rather contemptuously the view of those 

 naturalists who ascribe migration to instinct. For ' instinct' he would substitute ' habit.' 

 The superiority of Mr. Dixon's theory really resides in this, that he offers a rational ex- 

 planation of the origin of this 'instinct,' or 'hereditary impulse.' .... The plausible 

 theory which Mr. Dixon propounds is illustrated with abundance of ornithological learning, 

 and a multitude of examples which, he tells us, might have been indefinitely increased. 

 Apart from his speculations, Mr. Dixon's book is a most interesting monograph upon the 

 facts and phenomena of bird migration, and we can hardly doubt that, whether his theories 

 win acceptance or not, the volume in which he sets them forth will become part of thu 

 necessary equipment for future explorers in this department of ornithology." 



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