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are, perhaps, as an introduction to comparative 

 anatomy. Professor Eymer Jones's " Animal King- 

 dom ; " and for systematic Zoology, Mr. Gosse's 

 four little books, on Mammals, Birds, Eeptiles, and 

 Fishes, published, with many plates, by the Christian 

 Knowledge Society, at a marvellously cheap rate. 

 For microscopic animalcules. Miss Agnes Catlow's 

 "Drops of AVater" will teach the young more than 

 they will ever remember, and serve as a good in- 

 troduction to those teeming abysses of the unseen 

 world, which must be afterwards traversed under the 

 guidance of Hassall and Ehrenberg. 



For Ornithology, there is no book, after all, like 

 dear old Bewick, jyasse though he may be in a 

 scientific point of view. There is a good little 

 British ornithology, too, published in Sir W. 

 Jardine's "Naturalist's Library," and another by 

 Mr. Gosse. And Mr. Knox's " Ornithological 

 Eambles in Sussex," with Mr. St. John's "High- 

 land Sports," and "Tour in Sutherlandshire," are 

 the monographs of naturalists, gentlemen, and 

 sportsmen, which remind one at every page (and 



